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Penina Ava Taesali

Penina Ava Taesali

Penina Ava Taesali Samoan writer, poet, educator, and cultural arts activist Penina Ava Taesali is the author of Sourcing Siapo (2016). For nine years, she worked as artistic director for the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC), where she founded the Asian Pacific...
Phil Cibicki

Phil Cibicki

Phil Cibicki As a 34-year-old, Phil has resided in the Wenatchee Valley since 1996, where he enjoys mountain biking and hiking in the summer as well as nordic and alpine skiing in the winter.  Indoors, Phil loves to play board games and write poetry.  Currently, Phil...
Quenton Baker

Quenton Baker

Quenton Baker Quenton Baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. His current focus is anti-blackness and the afterlife of slavery. His work has appeared in The Offing, Jubilat, Vinyl, Poetry Northwest and elsewhere. He has an MFA in Poetry from the University...
Raúl Sánchez

Raúl Sánchez

Raúl Sánchez Raúl is the former City of Redmond Poet Laureate 2019-2021. He was a member of (WITS), Writers In The Schools through Seattle Arts and Lectures. Currently, a poetry mentor at Denny and Mercer International Middle Schools through the Jack Straw Cultural...
Rena Priest

Rena Priest

poets map about shows contact Rena Priest Rena Priest is a member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation. She is the incumbent Washington State Poet Laureate and Maxine Cushing Gray Distinguished Writing Fellow. Priest is also the recipient of an Allied Arts Foundation...