Sierra Nelson's poems are hypotheses of the evanescent world - its evaporations and evasions, its silences and speeches. "All ears, all eyes, all senses at attention," Nelson examines the tenuous tentacles that connect humans, plants, and animals, that tether us to the past - detailing the surreptitiousness of joy, the necessity of loss, how a body is changed by everything it encounters. Line by line The Lachrymose Report reveals how language, like feeling, originates deep in every cell, even as the wonder of these poems unfolds on an evolutionary scale.

The Lachrymose Report (Possession Sound Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Nelson, Sierra

Poetry

Poetry Northwest Editions

In Theorem, a collaboration by poet Elizabeth Bradfield and artist Antonia Contro, spare images, distilled text, and the resonant space between investigate the legacy of secrets acquired in childhood and held through a life. Part visual interrogation of shapes and forms, part lyrical bewilderment at the interface of memory and geometry, Theorem charts a luminous path of self-discovery that unsettles and upends. Theorem's collaboration opens possibilities beyond the simple life-changing epiphany. As John Yau writes, "The revelation is not in arriving at a destination but in beginning to map the journey, as well as in recognizing that one's perspective of past events changes as time goes by. This is the enigma of being alive and alert. This is what Theorem offers the willing reader---a place to return to in order to set out again and see what has changed." Using tropes drawn from math and science in both text and images, Theorem grapples again and again with how to find certainty and clarity within the chaos of lived experience.

Theorem

Arts & Photography

Bradfield, Elizabeth

Individual Artists

In the Footsteps of a Thousand Griefs (Youth Poet Laureate)

Lee, Wei-Wei

The sixth collection in the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Series, Motherland is a breathtaking exploration of womanhood and blackness framed by family, immigration, and history. Giday blends lyric and experimentation to bring her experiences as a first-generation Ethiopian American to life and asks insightful, difficult questions about how we all experience the world. Her combination of traditional storytelling and contemporary influence infuses her poems with a conscious power wielded to invoke the reader's reflection, consideration, and awareness.

Motherland (Seattle Youth Poet Laureate)

Giday, Bitaniya

In Morality Play, Lauren Hilger forges a restless path between the impressionable folly of youth and the boundlessness of individual becoming. A motley bildungsroman of fierce imagination, Morality Play reveals, and revels in, the paradox inherent in its title, angling for a tender virtue in the sensuousness of words. "Raised on a fast pencil, a sound expiring," Hilger reminds us that "From the world's first cities, it was always a woman / telling the future." Like a wild song fluent in, or flung against, awkward self-delusion and constrictive cultural norms, Morality Play offers a vision of womanhood as expansive as lucid dreaming, where all the "wrong words" become our "mother tongue."

Morality Play (Possession Sound Reading)

Hilger, Lauren

Zinnia Hansen is Seattle's 2021/22 Youth Poet Laureate. Zinnia Hansen is a poet and essayist from the Pacific Northwest. She is a first year student at the University of Washington, studying linguistics. Her work has been published in Blue Marble Review, Young Poets Network, and Ice Lolly Review. She was a finalist in the New York Times Personal Narrative Contest and part of the Hugo House Young Poet's Cohort.\nThe Seattle Youth Poet Laureate program is a program of Seattle Arts & Lectures. The Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Program aims to identify young writers and leaders who are committed to civic and community engagement, poetry and performance, leadership, and education across Seattle.

Spikenard (Seattle Youth Poet Laureate)

Hansen, Zinnia

Lovelike (Seattle Youth Poet Laureate)

Pham, Sah

Habitats (Possession Sound Reading)

Whitcomb, Katharine

Dear Spanish (Seattle Youth Poet Laureate)

Acuña, Mateo

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