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Arternative World
As an urban planner, Claudia Castro Luna always thought about the connection between people and place. But after leaving her work and earning a Master of Fine Arts, her interests took a slightly different turn. She now writes poetry, but in a way that is deeply rooted in the sense of place that she once thought about so frequently in her past profession. Her project, the Poetic Grid, is an interactive map of poems that are related to specific locations in Seattle. Castro submitted several of her own poems and also included works from famous Seattle poets. However, the majority of the poems are from amateur poets. The Poetic Grid captures a very wide range of emotions from people of many different cultures by allowing for submissions in foreign languages. Many of the poems are written in Spanish and a few are written in Japanese. As an immigrant from El Salvador, Castro wants to continue to work with these immigrant communities: “We say we want all voices to be heard. It should be that way. But, that takes work and we have to be diligent about finding those voices and inviting those voices to the table.”
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