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The Skagit River Poetry Festival kicks off tomorrow, Thursday, with a fundraising dinner followed by a literary show with Tom Robbins and Sherman Alexie. Dinner is at Maple Hall in La Conner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and will feature local cuisine with poets seated at every table. Tickets are $100. After dinner, from 8 to 10 p.m., author Tom Robbins and poet Sherman Alexie are scheduled to take the stage at the La Conner Elementary School gym for an entertaining evening of wit and wordplay. The evening event is $40. Friday, Saturday and Sunday...
The LaConner Arts Commission is happy to announce the installation of the first poem from the “Poetry in the Street Project.” The short poem “Early Fall” is engraved in bronze letters into a section of sidewalk in front of the La Conner Civic Garden Club butterfly garden on S. Second Street. Helping to dedicate the inscription last week was the executive director of the Skagit River Poetry Foundation, Molly McNulty, and the mayor of La Conner, Ramon Hayes. This is the first of four poems schedul...
