Cosmic Fire, Lost Icons, and New Laureates
I was fascinated by the news story about a heart-shaped coronal mass coming from a solar storm that will hit earth around Valentine’s Day. The headline Cosmic Log went with was somewhat less romantic than I would have chosen…
Sorry to lose Whitney Houston, if not surprised. In the eighties I thought she was one of the most beautiful women I’d ever seen, and what a gorgeous voice. Losing a lot of my teen icons, these days…
A new Poet Laureate of Washington State was announced, and it was Seattle’s Kathleen Flenniken. Her second book, Plume, I’m reviewing soon deals with subject matter close to my heart – the complicated environmental, personal and political history of Hanford, Washington state’s nuclear plant. Congrats to Kathleen!
(Kathleen is the tall brunette in the middle of this lovely group of poets at Open Books last year:)
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.
