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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
President has repeated unsubstantiated claims that there were major problems with voting and ballot counting georgia is now one of several states where republicans are fighting legal challenges over the election. And toms claims of voting irregularities already sparked protests in arizona and other places Police Officers in phoenix could be seen inside Accounting Center as Trump Supporters gathered outside allen fisher has more from washington d. C. All the secretaries of state will tell you that they are conducting the elections in line with their local laws and they are not doing anything untoward and they are observers from both parties and also independent observers in the room at the time now its interesting as well that the Truck Company 100 hours to know where they are behind this saying youve got to count the votes youve got to count the votes meanwhile in pennsylvania theyre saying youve got to stop counting the votes so if you take the argument to any judge theyre going to se
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