TODAY MARKS THE OFFICIAL RELEASE of WA129, a new poetry anthology edited by Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshal and published by Sage Hill Press. To commemorate Washington's 129th year, the collection includes poems by 129 poets from our great state, including Sherman Alexie, Tom Robbins, Heather McHugh, yours truly, and many more. That's some pretty luminous company for me. (In fact it's a testament to the limits of my imagination that I'd never even dared to dream of appearing in the same volume as Heather McHugh.)

My own contribution is "Olympic Harvest," a sequence of nine haiku that loosely traces a trip from Seattle to the Olympic rain forest during one long spring evening.

I'm told the book is available at Elliott Bay Book Company -- which I'll verify this weekend -- and it's definitely available at Amazon (http://ow.ly/6fag30aRKXl), though I'm sure it will be available more widely soon.

Meanwhile, many thanks to Tod Marshal for choosing to include my work, and to Sage Hill Press, Humanities Washington, and the Washington State Arts Commission for supporting the project.

Happy National Poetry Month, good people!