Poet Claudia Castro Luna reads her poem 'A Corner to Love'

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Channel: PBS NewsHour · 2017 · News & Politics

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Seattle has a new way of mapping itself -- the so-called "Poetic Grid", a digital online map of the city. Claudia Castro Luna dreamed up the idea in 2015, when she became Seattle's first civic poet. The two-year residency was created by Seattle's Office of Arts and Culture. Castro Luna wanted a way to capture the rapidly changing city and asked people to write about specific locations that had meaning to them. We met with her in Seattle's Central Library, designed by architect Rem Koolhaus, and also the site of workshops she held to meet budding poets in her city. Castro Luna is an urban planner, teacher and poet and she us read her poem, "A Corner to Love".

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