New poet laureate visits Senate, SecState
(Photo courtesy of Legislative Support Services Photo Department) The Office of Secretary of State was pleased to help welcome Washington’s new poet laureate, Seattle-based Elizabeth Austen, to the Capitol on Wednesday. Austen, who is beginning a two-year term as the state’s designated teacher-performer-ambassador for poetry, was honored by a speaking role at the opening exercises of the state Senate, reading her poem “This Morning.” This Morning “Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?” – Roethke…