Claudia Castro Luna on TEDxUofW

Claudia shares her project, the Seattle Poetic Grid, and describes how people change place.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Claudia Castro Luna on PBS News Hour

How do you capture Seattle’s complications, quirks and ever-changing population? A new digital project is mapping out the evolving city by collecting poems that tell unique stories, from growing up in an affluent neighborhood to memories of homelessness and cold concrete. Jeffrey Brown reports on Seattle’s “Poetic Grid.”

Learn more about Seattle’s Poetic Grid.

Claudia Castro Luna

Washington State Poet Laureate

KCTS 9 Documentary

She fled the war in El Salvador. She’s now the state poet laureate.

Academy of American Poets

Dear Poet 2020

Claudia Castro Luna, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and the poet laureate of Washington State, reads her poem “Asi” as part of Dear Poet, the Academy of American Poets’s educational project for National Poetry Month 2020. Learn more at www.poets.org/dear-poet. Read the poem at https://poets.org/poem/asi.