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

Fernando Pérez

Seattle

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Give This Shore a Name

What runs without feet
Is more than just river.
Father tied my first hook
To a word and let me grow
My own gills to breathe.
Give this shore a name,
Because it breathes too
Like salmon mapping their return
Speak a sympathetic burst
On the water’s surface.

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