Kathleen Flenniken

Kathleen Flenniken

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Kathleen Flenniken, who received an MFA in Creative Writing and is the former Washington State Poet Laureate, will release “Post Romantic,” her third collection, in October through the University of Washington Press. Her work fuses personal memory with national and ecological upheaval. She interweaves narratives of family, nuclear history (Flenniken grew up near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where she and her father both worked), love of country, and a dangerous age moving too fast. “ ‘Post Romantic’ is a mature work of a high order by a brave and serious poet,” writes author David Guterson.