October 19, 2024, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join Seattle-King County literary organizations in Poets Against Hate: an event at the Seattle downtown public library. Each poet will read one poem relevant to the subject. Readers include 2024 Jack Straw Writers E.J. Batiste and Jarrett Ziemer, as well as program alumni Paul Hunter, Esther Altshul Helfgott, Michael Hureaux, Paul E Nelson, Sylvia Pollack, Raúl Sánchez, Carolyne Wright, and Carletta Carrington Wilson.
This event is co-sponsored by Raven Chronicles Press, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Cascadia Poetics Lab, Pongo Poetry Project, and Recovery Cafe’s Safe Place Writing Circle. We will have a table set up for organizations/poets to sell books after the reading.
Full List of Readers:
E.J. Batiste “The Do’s and Don’s”
Lorna Dee Cervantes “Poem for the Young White Man who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-read Person, Could Believe in the War Between the Races”
Laura E. Garrard “Stigmatized and Written Off”
Pauline Gates, “Round As The Moon”
Ed Harkness, “Transplanting Tomatoes Amid the Rubble of a Bombed School”
Paul Hunter, MC
Esther Altshul Helfgott “In My Dream”
Michael Hureaux “The Caravan”
Mark S. Johnson “Revising Sister Rosa”
Gabriella Gutiérrez Muhs “Think Not”
Paul E. Nelson “Elegy for Slaughter X”
Sylvia Pollack “An Other Invocation”
Raúl Sánchez “My Experience at the Detention Center and Why I Became Interested in Mentoring the Youth”
Carolyne Wright “Tombs without Names”
Eugenia Toledo “Tumbas sin nombres ”
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Jacqueline Ware “Hate Takes a Break”
Carletta Carrington Wilson “letter to a laundress”
Jarrett Ziemer “These Brazil Nut Nigga Toes”
