The Elliott Bay Book Company, located in the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, will be hosting a virtual event featuring local Seattle-based poets Katerina Canyon and Raul Sanchez on December 7, 2021 at 6PM. The event is free and open to the public.

Katerina Canyon, an Award Winning Poet, Best Selling Author, civil rights activist, and essayist, will be reading from her latest poetry collection Surviving Home (published by Kelsay Books, November 9, 2021). Surviving Home is a reflection on African American heritage and up-bringing, racism, and abuse. Concisely arresting and challenging the beliefs of family and the fantasies of tradition, the poems in Surviving Home show that home is a place that you endure rather than a place where you are nurtured. With unyielding cadence and unparalleled sadness and warmth, Katerina Canyon contemplates the prejudice and limitations buried in a person's African American heritage: parents that seem to care for you with…