Emerald Coast Storytellers will be partnering with Escape To Create and the Seaside Institute, bringing distinguished writers to our area as part of their 30th anniversary celebration. Celebrated poet, speaker, author and storyteller Karla K. Morton, 2010 Texas State Poet Laureate and esteemed alumnus of Seaside’s “E2C” residency, and 2005 Texas Poet Laureate Alan Birkelbach will read a selection of poems from their awarded book The National Parks: A Century of Grace.