Cspan2, created by americas Cable Television company is a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Representative rick larsen democrat from washington recently joined book tv to discuss the books he is reading. So congressman rick larsen of washington, what is on your reading list right now. My current reading list is long but is coming into the middle of the summer now so i am working on wreck, the third novel by joe day, is los angeles mystery pointer. An iq is his character. As the third book in the series. Its kind of a detective novel. Is a private investigator and alone and a lot of action and a lot of great relationships. Im working on that in a muscle working on frederick douglass, a biography published recently, im working on that. Its a fairly long book. In popping in and out of that. Quite a bit. Im taking that in chunks. And for the policy, david one of the think tanks in washington dc, is the lead editor of the called china of 2049, and brought
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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