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Press Releases

Title Source Date
Featured Reading for 2007 Candidates
At the Downtown Library and Richard Hugo House
Ampersand Arts 07/09/2007
Candidates for Election Announced
16 poets vie for Poet Populist position
Ampersand Arts 06/18/2007
2007 Poet Populist Program Announces CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Deadline of June 8, 2007
Ampersand Arts 04/30/2007
Art and Politics to Mix at Downtown Library
Poet Populist Jourdan Imani Keith featured reading
City of Seattle 04/12/2007
Poet Election Winner to be Announced at Bumbershoot
Outgoing Seattle Poet Populist and top contenders to perform
City of Seattle 08/29/2006
Seven poets vie to be Seattle Poet Populist
Winner to be announced at Bumbershoot
City of Seattle 06/19/2006
Seattle celebrates its Poet Populist
Current populist reads to flute and drum as nominations for the next come in
City of Seattle 04/26/2006
Join The Seattle Public Library for 'Music and Poetry: Seattle Poet Populist Pesha Joyce Gertler and Friends' Seattle Public Library 04/10/2006
Join The Seattle Public Library for Seattle Poet Populist "Candidates Read Off" July 31 Seattle Public Library 05/07/2005

News

Title Source Date
City Populist Spreads Love of Poetry The Harvard Crimson 12/18/2007
City's poet hopes to bring verse to the people The Boston Globe 11/25/2007
Candidate; Verses Candidate - Cambridge's first Poet Populist Cambridge City Councilor Brian Murphy's Blog 10/11/2007
Jourdan Keith | Words are just part of her natural calling Seattle Weekly 06/03/2007
Top city wordslinger steps aside for successor Seattle Weekly 08/23/2006
Exercise Artistic Democracy Beacon Hill News and South District Journal 08/09/2006
"The Seattle Poet Populist Voter's Guide"

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"The Beat" on KUOW FM 94.9 8/7, 8/14, and 8/21
Seattle Poet Populist teaches at UW The Daily of the University of Washington 7/19/2006
Versus of the people, by the people and for the people Seattle Post-Intelligencer 8/1/2005
The Ballots are in: Seattle's new poetry populist is... Jewish Transcript 2005
Poet Populist' throws out first pitch at Safeco Seattle Post-Intelligencer 4/25/2002