This festival offers two book launches and honors the founder of Copper Canyon Press, Sam Hamill. Hear work by Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna, Copper Canyon Press co-founder William O'Daly, Shin Yu Pai, Stephen Collis, Susan Griffin, Tim McNulty, Stephen Kuusisto, Rebecca Seiferle, Thomas Walton, Nadine Maestas, Elizabeth Cooperman, Jared Leising, EJ Koh, Ian Boyden, Lyn Coffin, Kent Johnson, and others, plus flute music by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel. For poetry lovers, this may be an ideal weekend trip to Anacortes.