Poetry in Public: Places of Landing

Poetry in Public brings communities together through the written word, celebrating local voices by featuring poems written by King County residents in shared spaces.

Our 2023-2025 theme, Places of Landing, embraces the poetry of our daily lives by honoring the movements, places, and feelings that tell the stories of our days. Everyone can be a poet!

Featured Poet

Duane Niatum

Seattle

Featured image for We Hear the Journey Written on the Waves

We Hear the Journey Written on the Waves

The sea, a pillar of our land.
We hear it open each season with a different song
on the path to rebirth where ancestors
heal sorrow and loss.
The Dungeness River flows like a dream,
making a difference we feel under our feet.
We arrive where our people were born.

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