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Of the National Scientific organizations. Kathleen flenniken is a poet and educated in seattle and the author of three poetry collections including 2012 plume, in addition to nuclear age songs of innocence and experience inspired by him for pictures the Washington State poet laureate from 20122014 and shes cohesively on the board of jack straw local audio art studio and cultural incubator. They are here tonight to talk about steves book the apocalypse factory plutonium and the making of the atomic age. Age. Please join in welcoming Kathleen Flenniken and steve olson. Thanks, weir. Kathleen published a book of poems in 2012 and all of those poems are about hanford. I host so those homes in my book that cannot last week including one of the very beginning of my book thats called a great physicist recalls the Manhattan Project. But for the beginning of this conversation kathleen is going to read a poem from her new book of poems which is entitled postromantic and disconnect in october fro
National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
Poet and educator in seattle and the author of free poetry collections including 2012 room. Also the New Washington poet laureate 21222014 and currently serving on the board of jack straw a local studio. Here today talking about the apocalypse factory. Please join me to welcome steve olson. Thanks. As you know kathleen published a book of poems in 2012 and all of those are about hanford. And then she will we eat paul from her new book of poems entitled post romantic coming out in october from the university of washington press. So to make sure my slides will work i will project her words onto a screen. Banks. And to say before i read the poem how im pleased to be a part of this evening and its wonderful to celebrate the publication of this book not just because i have poems in it but they are not told us much as i think they should be and then to get the story out i have learned all kinds of things from it and out there for people to read. This is the poem and its called stories that w
Going to be looking at the lewis and Clark Expedition and discussing some of the ramifications of this most important expedition. Some people have classified the lewis and Clark Expedition and compared it to the odyssey of the greek tragedies, just like the civil war is sometimes seen as americas iliad, of that great epic battle. This great voyage will be quite significant and important. A few years ago, the Atlantic Monthly did a survey of the top 100 most influential figures in American History and lewis and clark make the list at 70. What i find interesting is they are the only names on the entire list where they are listed together. So, it is almost like they are inseparable. And the smithsonian did one just five years ago on the 100 most significant americans, and Meriwether Lewis and William Clark once again made the list, and sacagawea also made the made it. This young teenage shoshone woman was considered one of the 100 most significant americans. So, there is an impression acr