KUOW Book Club with Katie Campbell, Laura Da’ and Cedar Sigo

KUOW Book Club’s Katie Campbell sits down with local poets Laura Da’ and Cedar Sigo, whose work is featured in this year’s Seattle Reads selection “You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World.”

About the Speakers:
Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is Eastern Shawnee. Her first book, “Tributaries”, was published by the University of Arizona Press and won a 2016 American Book Award. Da’ has held residencies at the Hugo House, Tin House, and Jack Straw. Her newest book, “Instruments of the True Measure,” is the winner of the Washington State Book Award. Da’ lives near Seattle with her husband and son.

Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. He studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. Sigo is the author of “All This Time” (Wave Books, 2021); “Royals” (Wave Books, 2017); “Language Arts” (Wave Books, 2014); and “Stranger in Town” (City Lights, 2010). Of his work, Ron Silliman writes, “Cedar Sigo is a Frank O’Hara for the twenty-first century: witty, erudite, serious, with a terrific ear and eye for the minutest details, at home in the world of the arts.” In 2022, Sigo received a poetry grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Sigo has taught at St. Mary’s College and Naropa University. He lives in Lofall, Washington.

Katie Campbell joined KUOW's online team as an editor and reporter in 2024, after serving three years as senior producer of the local Morning Edition program. In addition to reporting on the news of the day, she brings readers some levity with a weekly news quiz and curates the KUOW Book Club. (Get her literary recommendations and analysis by signing up for the book club newsletter!)

Seattle Reads “You Are Here” is presented in partnership with African-American Writers’ Alliance; Creative Aging at the Frye; Elliott Bay Books; Hugo House; KUOW Book Club; La Sala; the Memory Hub, UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center; Open Books: A Poem Emporium; Poetry Northwest; Pongo Poetry Project; 4Culture Poetry in Public; Seattle Arts & Lectures Youth Poetry Fellowship; Third Place Books.

It is made possible by The Seattle Public Library Foundation and The Wallace Foundation, with additional support from Milkweed Editions, KUOW-FM, and media sponsor The Seattle Times.

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