Stepwell | Poetry Northwest

With a shrewd eye and a precise pen, Stepwell asks readers to look closely at their everyday. Genre-blending and genre-bending poems come together to form a collection built around attention, advice, and admonishment. This first book is a bold statement around what it means to live, write, and ask questions of self and city in today’s America.

Praise for Stepwell

A modern-day apostle of unrepentant certitude—to say the least, Tyabji’s stanzas leave little room for the abstract as her style of writing is visceral and calculated. May all the established poets hold (this) new work, by (this) new author closely.
Anastacia-Renée, Seattle Civic Poet, author of (v.), Forget It, and Answer (Me)

Azura Tyabji serves as the 2018/19 Youth Poet Laureate of Seattle. As a writer, spoken word performer, facilitator, and educator, her poetry is motivated by a love for community, justice, and healing. She writes fearlessly and with documentary precision about the complex realities of contemporary urban life.

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