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

Susan Rich

Seattle

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Naming It

The shape in
which the estuary

threads her way inland to the Puget Sound;

or—to pull a thread
through the eye of a bead.

The same sense of direction—

staving off loss
by narrowing what we need.

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