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

Jade Ye

Sammamish

Youth Poet

Featured image for From Our Roots We Rise

From Our Roots We Rise

A little yellow flower,
Miles of stretching roots,
A thin and narrow river,
Eternities of overlapping ripples.

A little child,
Their heart is a web,
Connected to all,
A nest of tangled roots.

From our roots we rise,
The roots of mother earth,
Of our home,
For each other.

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