Poet Lorna Dee Cervantes on the literary history of The Blue Moon Tavern

Each day during the month of April, KUOW is highlighting the work of Seattle-based poets for National Poetry Month. In this series curated by Seattle Civic Poet and Ten Thousand Things host Shin Yu Pai, you'll find a selection of poems for the mind, heart, senses, and soul.

Lorna Dee Cervantes celebrates the rich literary history of The Blue Moon Tavern, favorite watering hole of poets like Carolyn Kizer, Allen Ginsberg, Theodore Roethke, Richard Hugo, and Dylan Thomas in her poem "Dancing with Roethke."

Lorna Dee Cervantes is a XicanIndx (Chumash/Purepacha) author of six award-winning books of poetry, including most recently April on Olympia. She is the former Director of Creative Writing at University of Colorado at Boulder, where she was a professor for 20 years. She moved to Olympia, WA, in 2014 and now lives and writes in Seattle.