Indigenous Voices: An Evening of Poetry & Conversation

Indigenous Voices: An Evening of Poetry & Conversation

Join us on January 17 at the Evergreen s’gʷi gʷi ʔ altxʷ: House of Welcome for an evening of poetry and conversation with four Indigenous Washington poets. Laura Da’ (Eastern Shawnee), Rena Priest (Lummi, current Washington State Poet Laureate), Cedar Sigo (Suquamish), and Arianne True (Choctaw, Chickasaw) will read selections from their work and speak about poetry and the world…

2022 Washington State Book Award Finalists Announced!

2022 Washington State Book Award Finalists Announced!

The Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library) and The Seattle Public Library have selected 39 finalists in eight categories for the 2022 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2021. This is the 56th year of the program, formerly…

Olympia’s CIELO wins Library of Congress State Literacy Award

Olympia’s CIELO wins Library of Congress State Literacy Award

CIELO, a nonprofit organization in Olympia that provides literacy support and resources to immigrant and refugee communities in the South Sound, recently received a Library of Congress State Literacy Award for their contributions to the promotion of literacy and reading in the state. The organization was nominated by the Washington Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center…