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

Jody Tate

Seattle

Featured image for Homeward

Homeward

We’re an overflow pour
of people, a random crowd

of rain-glittered coats, yet
we streamline and board the bus step

by step—a single-file
promise each makes to the other,

leaning homeward like herons
easing wing by wing

together over shining tidelands,
over outbursts of evergreens.

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