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

Sumu Tasib

Seattle

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Bus Stop

Years ago
I met someone,
At a bus stop:
No words, exchanged
A folded poem—

Not this stop and not this poem
But because all buses are connected
So must it be with words and souls
And wouldn’t you know it, this one
Might just get you there.

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