Jourdan Keith

As 2016-2018 Poet Planner, Jourdan Imani Keith articulated the theme “Your Body of Water,” co-hosted a series of 11 community poetry workshops, and provides curatorial oversight for the program.

Jourdan is the founder and director of Urban Wilderness Project. A storyteller in the oral, Griot tradition, she is a VONA, Hedgebrook, and Jack Straw alum, Seattle Poet Populist Emeritus, and Seattle Public Library’s first Naturalist-in-Residence.