[Seattle Youth Poet Laureate] Baumgart, Lily: Admitted to the Personal Ads

Admitted to the Personal Ads by Lily Baumgart (Penmanship Press, paperback)

Publication Date: May 2018

Publisher Marketing: "Admitted to the Personal Ads is not a pretty poetry manuscript whistling teen spirit--but a poetic photog, unfiltered, loudly silent and haunting." --Anastacia-Renee, Seattle Civic Poet, Author of (v.), Forget It and Answer(Me).

"Lily Baumgart sends us to a world of mirror and riposte, of reflection and the kinetic question of the body in the world. You will find neither apology nor unearned surety in this collection--only the loving pursuit of spirit and the measured rhythm of a serious poet. Baumgart has the ear, the eye, and the heart to work on us, to put us in motion, to move us in step with the driving music contained in these poems." --Quenton Baker, author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books, 2016) and recipient of the Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust.