Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken visits Redmond!
- At November 17, 2012
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Today I have the chance as Poet Laureate of Redmond to host the Poet Laureate of the whole state of Washington, Kathleen Flenniken, as she reads at Redmond Library from her new book, Plume, at 3 PM. Afterwards I’ll host a short Q&A, and we’ll serve refreshments, and Kathleen will sign books! I’m really looking forward to hearing Kathleen read poems from Plume again – this is one of my favorite books of 2012 – I liked it so much I bought one for myself and one for my father!
It’s a stormy day out, perfect for curling up with a good book at the library, so come by if you can! (Refreshments include sea-salt-and-cocoa-dusted almonds and peppermint-chocolate cookies…)
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
