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She is the founder of Shade Literary Arts, a literary platform for queer writers of color, and co-hosts The Poet Salon podcast with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat. Her honors include the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Rosenberg Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize, Cascade PBS’s Black Arts Legacies honoree, and named Most Influential by Seattle Magazine. Her writing has been published in The Paris Review, Orion, American Poetry Review, and others. She’s been featured in The Seattle Times, Forbes, Essence, KUOW Public Radio, The Slowdown, and more. Lue lives in Seattle where she was born and raised. https://www.lutherxhughes.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2026-02-10 https://www.lutherxhughes.com/a-shiver-in-the-leaves daily 0.75 2024-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5addef8636099b03dd832e3d/1645487463187-Z7S2UNPV8PPVPU4MK0PO/Shiver+Cover.jpg A Shiver in the Leaves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5addef8636099b03dd832e3d/ab9c7351-8568-4ed7-a014-c6abf83bb64b/Shiver+Cover.jpg A Shiver in the Leaves - A SHIVER IN THE LEAVES BOA Editions Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle's flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes' debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from the threat of depression and death through love and desire. Hughes draws readers into a Seattle that is heavily entrenched in violent anti-Blackness, and full of vulnerable and personal encounters from both the speaker’s past and present. With reverent and careful imagery, Hughes fashions deeply saturated, tender vignettes that reckon relationships between family and friends, lovers, nature, and the police-state. A Shiver in the Leaves is stunningly cinematic in its layered portrayal of the never-ending dualities of a queer Black poet’s life in the city. Hughes's interrogation of selfhood renders a sharply intimate and viscerally powerful reimagining of what it means to be alive in a body, and what it can mean to live. Artwork: Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave, Robert Ernst Marx (1925-2020) https://www.lutherxhughes.com/homepage daily 1.0 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5addef8636099b03dd832e3d/f55ab989-9644-4ddf-80ed-fdddc132808f/L+Hughes+-+Spring.jpg Homepage - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.