2007-2008 Seattle Poet Populist Candidates Read-off, Round 1 [Part 1]
Channel: SeattleArchives
Date: 2021-04-09

Original format: DVCAM, color with sound

Original footage of the 2007-2008 Seattle Poet Populist Candidates Read-off recorded by the Seattle Channel for a documentary. The program includes poetry readings, interviews and speeches at the Seattle Public Library, Central Branch. Frank Video interviews Bart Baxter and Anna Maria Huang. Baxter discusses the origins of the Poet Populist selection (beginning with a poetry slam and evolving into the voting process) and the honor of being the first person to be voted Seattle’s Poet Populist (2001-2002). Huang describes how she first learned about the Poet Populist program when she was working for Licata’s office with Video on the Words Worth Poetry program and how she likes the diversity of the process and nominees for the 2007-2008 contest. Introductory speech by Chris Higashi, program manager of Seattle Public Library’s Washington Center for the Book. Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata gives a speech and introduces each poet. Poetry reading performances include Bart Baxter and Victoria Ford. Poets featured in B-roll footage include Chad Goller-Sojourner.

Item 12677, Record Series 4650-12 Nick Licata Moving Image Collection, Seattle Municipal Archives