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

Coast to coast: You are the one I love the most
Born from peach groves,
I learn a love only we know.
In graveyards of blackberries and plums,
we dream what we could become.
Dancing in larches and pines
A love divine.
Beneath the seagull song,
The hope to belong,
I am choosing to be
A changed version of me.
All 2024 Poets
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* Listen to selected poems with audio.