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  Poetry is 'like falling in love' at Seattle Reads

  This is the KUOW Book Club, and we've been reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" in partnership with Seattle Reads.

  • Katie Campbell
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  'You Are Here' and you are writing. Readers get creative for National Poetry Month

  This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a poem of your own — you delivered.

  • Katie Campbell
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  What's the KUOW Book Club reading in April?

  In partnership with the Seattle Public Library, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" this month.

  • Katie Campbell
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  Seattle Reads + KUOW Book Club: Celebrating National Poetry Month with local voices

  In partnership with SPL, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here" in April, which is National Poetry Month.

  • Katie Campbell
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  Poet Maggie Smith's search for self, understanding, and human connection

  Poet Maggie Smith will read from and talk about her work on June 8 at Hugo House.

  • Paige Browning

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  Love and self-discovery etched with pain, the journey of Seattle's youth poet laureate

  Soundside is teaming up with youth-produced RadioActive to revisit some of the young people featured on the youth-produced show in a segment called "RadioActive Rewind." In this episode, producers tracked down Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Sah Pham, who is celebrating the release of her first book of poetry, "LOVELIKE."

  • Hans Anderson

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  Poetry in Bloom: 30 days of Seattle-centric themes and verses

  A note from Seattle Civic Poet, Shin Yu Pai.

  • Shin Yu Pai
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  Poet Sara Marie Ortiz on what the moon has to teach us

  Poet Sara Marie Ortiz looks at Seattle's landscape from a bird's-eye view, while contemplating natural and urban worlds, ever-present change, and all that's mutable.

  • Shin Yu Pai
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  Poet Nadine Maestas on psychedelic journeying and seeing the sacred in everything

  In "I Dreamt that We Ate Mushrooms Together," poet Nadine Antoinette Maestas brings the reader along on a sacred and immersive journey of becoming one again with nature, to remind humans of our own fundamental wildness.

  • Shin Yu Pai
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  Poet Raul Sanchez on finding a voice that transcends language and borders

  Raul Sanchez's poetry reflects an influence of American culture tangled with Sanchez's Mexican roots.

  • Alec Cowan

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