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Shin Yu Pai’s Poetry in Place Campaign Brings Poetry to Seattle’s Streets

by Jas Keimig


In the lush greenery of the Central District, a lavender poster on the home-turned-art-gallery Wa Na Wari’s front porch is visible from the sidewalk.

Upon closer inspection, it asks in a giant font, “How you doing?” then beckons, “Come take a seat.” At the bottom of the poster is the poem from which those two lines came — “The Visit” by storyteller and playwright Kathya Alexander. 

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