A stellar night draws something out — and us in A recent poetry reading at Folio, The Seattle Athenaeum, featured three renowned Northwest poets: Heather McHugh, Lucia Perillo and Washington poet... John O'Brien
How a poet tackles Seattle's changes Elizabeth Austen talks to Seattle's first civic poet Claudia Castro Luna about how poetry can be used to talk about the changing city. She is holding a... Elizabeth Austen
WATCH: Washington State's Poet Laureate Responds To Condo Development Tod Marshall grew up in the Midwest, but Eastern Washington’s high desert is the place that inspires his poetry. Marshall, the newly appointed... Marcie Sillman
Seattle Poet On The Inspiration Of His Mentor Elizabeth Austen talks to Seattle poet Quenton Baker about his mentor, Tim Seibles. Elizabeth Austen
Future Uncertain For Open Books, Seattle's Poetry-Only Bookstore Bill Radke talks with former Washington state poet laureate Elizabeth Austin about Open Books, a poetry-only bookstore in Seattle. The owners of Open Bo... Andy Hurst
From Insecure Kid To Washington State's Poet Laureate If you want to be Washington State’s poet laureate, you have to apply for the job, the same way you’d apply to be a teacher or a bookkeeper. Marcie Sillman
Washington Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen Says Goodbye To The Job Elizabeth Austen hadn't given much thought to the state poet laureate job until a few years ago. That changed after several friends urged Austen, a poe... Marcie Sillman
For Black Boys: 'You Are Beautiful' “Black boys bleed every month.” Those words came to Leija Farr as she saw her dad, enraged, watching the news of another police shooting of a black man.... Leija Farr
Seattle Arab-American Poet Seeks To 'Remind Us Of The Human' Washington state poet laureate Elizabeth Austen presents two poems by Seattle-based poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: "Fragment" and "Running Orders." Tuffaha... Elizabeth Austen
Local Poet On Trying To Hold On To Love's Beginning Washington state poet laureate Elizabeth Austen presents a "darkly beautiful love poem" from Tacoma-based poet Rick Barot. In his poem "After Darwish,"... Elizabeth Austen
