Little Girl - poem by Tami Haaland | Ted Kooser

There are many fine poems in which the poet looks deeply into a photograph and tries to touch the lives caught there. Here’s one by Tami Haaland, who lives in Montana.

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8:05 AM June 17, 2013

The Flight by Sara Teasdale | Poets.org

Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow, Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts a swallow,

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9:18 PM June 15, 2013

Black-and-white photos on display at Enumclaw City Hall gallery

Gallery 2013 presents the black-and-white work of photographer Jeff Ross in a display running Thursday through July 2.

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4:55 PM June 13, 2013

Ennui by Marianne Moore | Poets.org

Marianne Moore was born on November 15, 1887, in Kirkwood, Missouri. She emerged in the literary world as part of the Imagist movement; fellow Imagist poet H.D. had Moore's first book published without her knowledge in 1921. Moore died in 1972.

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12:16 PM June 9, 2013

Inland by Edna St. Vincent Millay | Poets.org

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on February 22, 1892. She produced a large body of writing, including some of the best-known sonnets of the twentieth century, while pursuing a Bohemian lifestyle in New York City's Greenwich Village. Millay died in 1950.

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11:21 AM June 8, 2013

Art on Cole | Enumclaw’s annual Street Fair.

The city of Enumclaw invites creative members of the community to participate in a new Art on Cole section of Enumclaw’s annual Street Fair.

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1:19 PM June 7, 2013

The High-School Lawn by Thomas Hardy | Poets.org

Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, in Stinsford, a village on the southern coast of England. Though perhaps best known for his many novels, Hardy abandoned fiction after receiving an increasingly negative reception from critics of the time and turned entirely to poetry. He died in 1928.

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1:44 PM June 2, 2013 Covington-Maple Valley Reporter

Recreational halibut season closed off La Push, Neah Bay | Fishing

The recreational halibut fishery off the north coast of Washington is now closed after reaching the seasonal harvest quota, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced today.

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9:31 AM June 1, 2013

Tests show no signs of ISA virus in Washington’s salmon

Recent tests of salmon from Washington’s waters show no signs of a fish virus that can be deadly to farm-raised Atlantic salmon, state, tribal and federal resource managers announced today Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus (ISAV) was not detected in tissue samples taken from more than 900 wild and hatchery-produced Pacific chinook, coho, sockeye, chum and steelhead, as well as farm-raised Atlantic salmon.

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9:21 AM June 1, 2013 Bonney Lake-Sumner Courier-Herald

Papyrus by Ezra Pound | Poets.org

Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885, in what was then Idaho Territory. Pound is renowned not just as a poet, but also as an editor responsible for promoting much of Modernist poetry as we know it. He died in 1972.

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8:45 AM June 1, 2013

With God in the Garden | Poem By Marjorie Eldred

There comes a bright and happy day When you and I will pause, Forget about the shadows, grey, And look instead at The Cause.

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6:20 PM May 30, 2013