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Tickets are still available for the Skagit Poetry Festival, which starts Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m.
While a full Festival pass costs $300, you can purchase daily passes. Pick and choose and chase favorite poets and sessions on your schedule.
For $50, you can attend the “Welcome to Indian Country” reading at 8:00 pm Thursday, featuring Washington state Poet Laureate Rena Priest, Upper Salish poet Sasha LaPointe, and Meskwaki (Red Earth People) tribal member Ray Young Bear from Iowa.
Swinomish carver Kevin Paul and his daughter Katherine Paul, whose music has been featured on the FX show “Reservation Dogs”, will offer music and a blessing.
An $80 pass for Friday entitles you to afternoon sessions plus the 7:30 p.m. all-poet reading in Maple Hall.
“It’s thrilling,” says Skagit River Poetry Foundation board member Georgia Johnson. “35 poets, one poem each, running up the aisles, awing everyone.”
You can also read your own poems at the open mic that follows.
On Saturday, a $95 pass lets you access over 30 sessions and readings, plus the 7:30 p.m. reading by nationally known poets Lorna Crozier, Terrance Hayes, Jane Hirschfield and Karen Solie.
Two-day passes for Friday and Saturday are also still available. They cost $150 and may be purchased online or at Maple Hall.
Is everything ready? Yes, says Skagit River Poetry Foundation executive director Molly McNulty.
“We are excited and panicked at the same time!”
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