2018 Northwest Folklife Festival

The Seattle Youth Poet Laureate program is a program of Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program and Urban Word. Writers Matt Gano and Aaron Counts co-founded the program in 2015 in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. The Seattle Youth Poet Laureate... Read More →

RingSide Slam is a head-to-head poetry slam in Seattle. The audience is the judge and each artist goes head-to-head single elimination. We want all poets, hip-hop heads, rhymers, dreamers, and first timers to roll through. This is like nothing you've ever seen. We also feature local... Read More →