A customer walks in front of the new Pioneer Square location of Open Books, a longtime Seattle poetry-only bookstore reopening this month, while owner Billie Swift takes down the paper covering the windows. (Margo Vansynghel/Crosscut)

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Seattle’s Open Books finds new home in Pioneer Square

The longtime Wallingford bookstore — one of the few poetry-only shops in the country — reopens just in time for National Poetry Month