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

Jess Ray

Seattle

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Shared Space

We roll down paths
Repeated thousands
Of frictional footsteps worn over asphalt
And nodding tired eyes
Conveyed passively home

Geometric pools of light in the dark
A whisper of cool air and shopping bags
Solid reassurance
Formed in patterns of sound
We travel together, alone

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