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It is time to buy your tickets for the 10th Biennial Skagit River Poetry Festival, May 17-20, in La Conner. The celebrated four-day event, with performances, readings, workshops and discussions, features some of the most renowned and diverse names in poetry, including Robert Pinsky, three-time U.S. Poet Laureate, and award-winning poet Ellen Bass. Her most recent book is “Like a Beggar.”

The festival opens Thursday with the Poets Table Soiree, a mixer that includes wine, delicious locally sourced hors d’oeuvres and a chance for attendees to meet the poets one-on-one. The reading is titled Dear...