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Join us for Postmark Poetry Nights, held on first Wednesdays by the City of Auburn and Auburn Avenue Poets!Arrive early to peruse artwork by local artists, bring a poem to share during the open mic, and bring a poetry book to swap for a poetry book at our book exchange!
𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗼 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻'𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲!
𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗼'𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗼:
Mateo Quispe @mateoquispewriter is a poet, writer, and interdisciplinary artist. He is the 2024-2026 Auburn Poet Laureate, the former Seattle Youth Poet Laureate, and the author of 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 (2024), a chapbook published by Poetry Northwest Editions. In 2025, Quispe received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for his work and the Canoe Poetry Nooks Project, which installs a series of Indigenous-focused poetry libraries in bookcases shaped like Coast Salish canoes in public spaces around Auburn and the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation. His work can be found in places such as American Poets Magazine, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and Creative Colloquy. In 2024 he received the Alphabet Alliance of Color’s Dwone Anderson Young Youth Leadership Award for QT-BIPOC youth activists.
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20 Auburn Ave, Auburn, WA, United States, Washington 98002
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