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ALT Illustration of green and red squid. Text reads "Inkaloud! Original Music inspired by the works of Shin Yu Pai and Claudia Castro Luna. Hugo House, Saturday, December 7, 2024, 7:30 p m.
ALT A black bar with white text is at the top of the image. Text is “Brigid Kelly, Susie Kozawa, Alex Macinnis.” A gray outline of a microphone is centered above the white text. Gray text on either side of the microphone is “Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast.” A yellow bar with a jagged edge and black text is on the bottom of the image. Text is “Tokio Florist Project.” In the middle of the two bars is a picture of a dark room with two images project on the walls. Susie Kozawa stands in the room.
ALT Exterior shot of Tokio Florist property with orange trees.
ALT White room with large windows. Susie Kozawa stands in the room holding a base balifone.
ALT Dimly lit room with large windows and an elaborate chandelier hanging from the ceiling. The room is filled with various sets of plates.
ALT This is a comic drawing of an interview with poet Shin Yu Pai and illustrator Justin Rueff. In the first panel, Shin Yu says "The three-line haiku form almost feels like it’s made for a four-panel comic." The second panel continues this quote: "Built into the structure of a haiku is a turn in the way that there’s normally a silent beat in four-panel comics." The third panel is a silent with a drawing of Shin Yu and Justin on a computer screen in a video call. In the fourth panel, Justin says, "How you lay out the pattern of the panels becomes a part of the poetry."
ALT Logos for the Academy of American Poets' ninetieth anniversary and Poetry & the Creative Mind. Text that reads: "A National Poetry Month Gala Fundraiser. Tuesday, April 30, 2024. 7:30 p.m. EDT. With Poet Hosts: Ellen Bass, Marilyn Chin, Farnaz Fatemi, Ashley M. Jones, Yesenia Montilla, Naomi Shihab Nye, January Gill O'Neil, Shin Yu Pai, Sara Daniele Rivera, Lynne Thompson, Laura Tohe, Emma Trelles, Robin Walter, Anthony Walton."
ALT Black typographic font against a teal background. Text reads "fictions and fishes"
ALT Atmospheric River by Bryan Wilson. In a city where rivers float in the sky braiding through cedars & buildings like a sentence in a poem, rivers rise as raindrops. A city, Heron-still, staring into Sound stones polishing words, storm-galoshing songs. Before long, river-rain makes watercolors of us, gathers in its clay-blue turbidity: vanishing sunbreaks & glaciers, the neighborhood breakfast spot, beaver’s lodge packed with wildflowers, stinging green of spring nettles, eddies of garlic in a small kitchen full of laughter, tumbling sediment of dreams, fictions and fishes. Sometimes, I’m a stone, mossy, sometimes awash in whorling passage. Sometimes, on a ferry full of passengers, we greet the water that connects us in torrents of riverine imagination.
ALT white banners with words cut out hanging from horizontal rods
ALT Photo of vinyl installation of poem on exterior window of friends of little Sài Gòn building
ALT Black typographic font against a teal background. Text reads "create a table into a home" in english and Vietnamese
ALT Seattle's Little Sài Gòn by Bryna Antonia Á Thanh Cortes. Fresh bánh baking, refrigerator hums. Red stripes through yellow, old and proud, the iconic nón lá. Jackson and 12th street trails, swinging doors gift savory winds. Bowls of soup warming you with just a scent. Markets of clamor, of every color. A chorus of languages, histories near and far. Fruits, greens, mints, a whole aisle of spices. Items the same, or at least similar, create the table into a home. We dream of walking between storefronts, connected paths. Friends of Little Sài Gòn to Mi La Cay, no division of wide blocks, spaced concrete. Centers and parks filled across generations.
ALT Photo of Bryna standing in front of building window that has vinyl installation of poem under friends of little Sài Gòn neon sign.
ALT Black typographic font against a pink background. Text reads through setbacks and steps forward
ALT The Seattle Public Libraries by Cindy Luong On hold — Eighteen scorching Book Bingo summers at the Seattle Public Libraries. Within the latticed windows of the Central Branch, my fourth grade team placed third at the Global Reading Challenge. we cried boiling tears of defeat as the autumn Seattle rain mourned with us. Hold paused — I've gained fourteen inches and outgrew the South Park librarian, her hair short like our winters, her smile like a spring day at the UW quad. Check out — One book, Passed, Loved, And passed on. through setbacks and steps forward, the libraries are here, For me, For you, For us. Check in.
ALT Black and pink standing banner of Cindy Luong's poem next to a library resource board.