(Art) Song Lab

Where Poets Composers & Poets Come Together

Mateo Quispe

May 29, 2026  /  Art Song Lab

Mateo Quispe is a poet, writer, and actor from Auburn, Washington, where he serves as the 2024-2026 Auburn Poet Laureate. A librettist in the Seattle Opera Creation Lab, he partnered with composer Mina Pariseau to create Blood Dawn of the Inti Sun, a twenty minute chamber opera. He has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Collections of Transience, EchoX, The Fine Arts Work Center, The Future Perfect Project, Jack Straw, and UrbanWordNYC. He is also the recipient of the 2024 Dwone Anderson Young Youth Leadership Award for QT-BIPOC youth activists and the former Youth Poet Laureate of Seattle.

categories / 2026 Participants, Writer

(Art) Song Lab was created and takes place on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.