# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Raúl Sánchez with Benjamin Schmitt, T. Clear, and Molly Olguín — 'When We Were Water'
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 15 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: An evening of poetry with Seattle writers

Third Place Books welcomes poet Raúl Sánchez to our Lake Forest Park location for a reading featuring his new collection When We Were Water. Local poets Benjamin Schmitt, T. Clear, and Molly Olguín join in creative community to read from their respective works.

This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!

 
About When We Were Water. . .
"In Raúl Sánchez's When We Were Water, selections from his books All Our Brown-Skinned Angels and When There Were No Borders travel to us with abundant new work that continues to experiment in forms and shapes, with odes and acrostic poems, visions and flashbacks, elegies and spirit-journeys, but always with humor and human vitality and a golden thread connecting to Latin roots. This work is free and playful, jazzy and up close, exploding with intensity. These are questing poems, liberation poems, devotional poems, ecstatic poems, comic poems, sincere and lived and opening out."
—Douglas Cole, author of The Cabin at the End of the World

"With his new poems, Sánchez expands his everyman vision by focusing closer to home-he tends the garden, washes the dishes, kills a spider, gazes at the stars, and records his dreams. He sees the people and remembers the history most of us overlook. He immerses himself in the natural world. All the while, Sánchez builds on the ground he has previously staked out—celebrating and memorializing family, moving seamlessly between cultures and languages, and believing in the power of poetry to save us."
—John Burgess, author of Punk Poems

Raúl Sánchez is a self-taught poet whose work reflects the immigrant experience as well as his own. He teaches bilingual poetry in middle schools, juvenile detention, domestic and immigrant day labor workers. He runs “Poetry in the Park” a biweekly gathering of neighbors and friends at the Meadowbrook Pond in NE Seattle.

Benjamin Schmitt is the Elgin Award-nominated author of five books, most recently Satan’s School for Girls and Other Works (Goldfish Press, 2026). His writing has appeared in Sojourners, Antioch Review, The MacGuffin, Sensitive Skin, Hobart, Columbia Review, The Seattle Times, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers’ Workshop, he lives in Seattle with his children.

Seattle poet T. Clear is the author of A House, Undone, winner of the Sally Albiso Award from MoonPath Press, and a chapbook, Egg Money, also from MoonPath Press. Her work has appeared in a long list of magazines and anthologies. She's an Associate Editor at Bracken Magazine.

Molly Olguín is a queer writer and educator from Seattle. Her debut collection The Sea Gives Up the Dead was selected for the 2023 Grace Paley Prize by Carmen Maria Machado and is out now with Red Hen Press. Her short stories have appeared in journals like Foglifter, The Normal School, River Styx, and Quarterly West. She teaches English and creative writing to high school students.

Want a signed edition of the featured book, but can't make it to the event? Order through our website or over the phone, and write your request for a signature or personalization in the comments field at checkout. Please call the hosting store if you're placing your order within 24 hours of the event.

For media or accessibility inquiries, please email events@thirdplacebooks.com or call our Lake Forest Park store at (206) 366-3311.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/lake-forest-park/raúl-sánchez-with-benjamin-schmitt-t-clear-and-molly-olguín-when-we-were-water/200030261016537
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Lake Forest Park
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA, United States, Washington 98155
- **lat**: 47.75286
- **long**: -122.2805
- **full address**: 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA, United States, Washington 98155

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Raul Sanchez with Benjamin Schmitt, T. Clear, and Molly Olguin — 'When We Were Water' being held?
  - **A:** Raul Sanchez with Benjamin Schmitt, T. Clear, and Molly Olguin — 'When We Were Water' takes place on Wed, 15 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 15 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA, United States, Washington 98155.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Raul Sanchez with Benjamin Schmitt, T. Clear, and Molly Olguin — 'When We Were Water'?
  - **A:** Raul Sanchez with Benjamin Schmitt, T. Clear, and Molly Olguin — 'When We Were Water' is organized by Third Place Books Lake Forest Park.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Raul Sanchez with Benjamin Schmitt, T. Clear, and Molly Olguin — 'When We Were Water' is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Lake Forest Park, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Raul Sanchez with Benjamin Schmitt, T. Clear, and Molly Olguin — 'When We Were Water' sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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