CAH virtual reading with WA State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna

About the event

“Of Poetry and Place”

Geography is inescapable. We live, love, work, dream in place. We are bound to the places we inhabit, the terrain we call home. The places we live in shape who we are, who we become. Lucille Clifton wrote, “you got a geography of your own.” Poetry is a place of convergences. A vast place where imagination, thought, and the roads, mountain tops and valleys inside us meet. Poetry is a catalyst, a starting point, to mapping our particular geographies.

Claudia Castro Luna is Washington’s State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021) and served as Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2017). She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets, Poets Laureate Fellowship and the author of Killing Marías (Two Sylvias) finalist for the WA State Book Award 2018, This City (Floating Bridge) and One River, a Thousand Voices (Chin Music Press). Born in El Salvador she came to the United States in 1981. Her non-fiction has appeared in several anthologies including, This is the Place (Seal Press). Living in English and Spanish, Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle.