Sweetness of the Spoil

Sweetness of the Spoil is a tender coming of age, a powerful exploration of self at the threshold of adulthood. In the eleventh installment of the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Series, Alfedil delivers a haunting lyric voice that interweaves stories of family and lineage into not mirror but prism as her light and language casts new ways of seeing out onto the reader.

The Seattle Youth Poet Laureate (YPL) program identifies, supports, and celebrates a young writer who is committed to both poeti...