Poetry festival - Sublime and a little naughty
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May 21, 2014
YOUNG LITERARY FAN – Author Sherman Alexie, who was one of the featured voices during last weekend’s Skagit River Poetry Festival, visits with 2-year-old Jaylen Paul of Mount Vernon and Jaylen’s uncle, Swinomish Tribal Senator Kevin Paul, who is shown seated. – Photo by Judy Booth
Two of literature’s wittiest voices took the stage in La Conner last Thursday for the opening of the Skagit River Poetry Festival.
When asked what inspired him to write, author Tom Robbins launched into what he’d have you believe is his personal story.
Voice as deadpan as Garrison Keillor on the “Prairie Home Companion,” the author of “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” claimed it all started when he opened the door of a cheap hotel room at midnight to a dwarf, who handed him a box of manuscripts wrapped in brown-paper bags. He was given instructions to open them only once every five...
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