This artist-book and epic poem by Claudia Castro Luna was created during a residency at Partners in Print. The stunning accordion-style volume brings together rich visual work and a sweeping poetic narrative.
A companion to her earlier book One River, a Thousand Voices, it extends her commitment to bringing poetry, art, and the natural world into dialogue.
A portion of the proceeds from Green, the World will benefit the Tacoma Tree Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to growing the urban tree canopy, deepening tree-equity, and empowering neighborhoods across the Greater Tacoma region.
 
 
Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019), WA State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2018). She is the author of Cipota Under the Moon (Tia Chucha Press, 2022) and Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press, 2017) both shortlisted for the WA State Book Award in poetry, 2023 and 2018 respectively. She is also the author of One River, A Thousand Voices (Chin Music Press, 2020) and the chapbook This City (Floating Bridge Press, 2016). Her most recent non-fiction is in There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis (Vintage) and in Memory's Vault: The Poetic Heart of Fort Worden (Empty Bowl). Born in El Salvador, Castro Luna lives in English and Spanish, and she writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands.