Poet in Seattle's Tent City

KPLU News Staff — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:02:30 +0000

Is there poetry in homelessness? Poet A.K. Mimi Allin is exploring that question while she lives with Seattle's Ten City homeless encampment this winter.

Allin is in the last few weeks of her three-month experiment. In December, she joined about 80 people who make up Tent City's current digs in the parking lot of Maple Leaf Lutheran Church in northeast Seattle.

A Thanksgiving welcome for Tent City campers

Gary Davis — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:06:26 +0000

Some Maple Leaf area kids intent on extending a warm welcome to the residents of the newest Tent City/Nickelsville site in northeast Seattle are hand-delivering Thanksgiving breakfasts today.