Our next postcard activation is Wednesday, April 1 at 6pm at yəhaw̓, Two seasoned postcard poets, Zach Charles and your humble narrator will talk about the Poetry Postcard Fest and provide postcards and collage materials. yəhaw̓, Indigenous Creatives Collective is at 9674 51st Ave S, in Seattle, essentially next to Kubota Garden. (We have a postcard activation there April 18 from 11AM-1PM.)

yəhaw̓ gets their name from the Lushootseed language and this quote is on their website:

“The Creator has left the sky too low. We are going to have to do something about it, and how can we do that when we do not have a common language? …We can all learn one word, that is all we need. That word is yəhaw̓ – that means to proceed, to go forward, to do it.”

— Vi taqʷšəblu Hilbert (Upper Skagit) in her telling of Lifting the Sky

Vi Hilbert was a legendary local indigenous leader who was primarily responsible for saving Lushootseed, Puget Sound Salish. What an inspiration to write postcards! What a way to be an indigenous ally. Get your postcard groove on 90 days in advance of the 20th Poetry Postcard Fest and learn about local indigenous culture Wednesday at 6. More details on the postcard activations is here:https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/poetry-postcard-activations/