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Last week's article on the Skagit River Poetry Festival ended with us giggling over the smell of ponies; Moses stepped into our lives; and we were stupefied by the violence of war.
The Skagit River Poetry Foundation's bi-annual festival Oct. 4-5 at Maple Hall was attended Friday by over 130 students from Oak Harbor and Whatcom and Skagit counties school districts, as well as a supportive and paying public.
The festival, though, is "just the icing on the cake" said Executive Director Molly McNulty.
"Our main mission is to put poets in classrooms. We do a teacher training each year to help teach...
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