Seattle Aquarium unveils new harbor seal exhibit with spectacular views
The Seattle Aquarium today unveiled its $6.5 million new harbor seal exhibit with doubled-tank depths, 180-degree visitor viewing outdoors and surround seating for 100 people. Visitors will now enjoy stunning views of the Aquarium’s three harbor seals Barney, Q and Siku in a new naturalistic habitat against the backdrop of Pier 60’s panoramic views of Puget Sound and salty sea air.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seattle International Dance Festival’s Art on the Fly Outdoor Kickoff Event. June 15
Art on the Fly kicks off ten days of international dance. On June 15th, the streets of South Lake Union become an arts playground featuring the Massive Monkees, a Brazilian parade, an Egyptian wedding procession (including a kazoo sing-along), a live interactive marionette exhibit (where the audience pulls the strings), a Bollywood Flash mob, and FREE open dance classes from Seattle's best studios. South Lake Union will be wall-to-wall events and it’s open to all ages.
A Knot of Worms, poem by Marsha Truman Cooper | Ted Kooser
You can’t get closer to our hunter-gatherer ancestors than by clawing in the earth with your fingers. Here’s a delightful poem about digging for bait by Marsha Truman Cooper, a Californian.
By the Waters of Babylon [V. Currents] by Emma Lazarus | Poets.org
The descendant of Sephardic Jews originally from Portugal, Emma Lazarus was born in New York City on July 22, 1849.
Spring Visitor | Poem by Marjorie Eldred
The following poem is a tetractys. It starts with one syllable, increases one syllable each line till line five. Line five is ten syllables. Second verse starts with ten syllables, then decreasing syllables each line, 4, 3, 2, 1. Enjoy the picture with me.
