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National Poetry Month: Home

April is National Poetry Month. This guide will include resources in various mediums of different poets and poems.

 

2023-2025 Washington State Poet Laureate Arianne True

Photo credit: arts.wa.gov.

Arianne True is serving as the Washington poet laureate from 2023-2025

Arianne True (Choctaw, Chickasaw) is a queer poet and teaching artist from Seattle, and has spent most of her work time working with youth. She’s received fellowships and residencies from Jack Straw, the Hugo House, Artist Trust, and the Seattle Repertory Theater, and is a proud alum of Hedgebrook and of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Burien with her cat.

Follow her on Instagram at @wapoetlaureate.

To read her published poems, go to https://www.ariannetrue.com/published-work.