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
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
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