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Welcome guest readers Kathleen Flenniken and Suzanne Edison!Kathleen Flenniken is the author of Dressing in the Dark (Lynx House Press, 2025) and three previous poetry collections: Post Romantic, Plume, and Famous, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her honors include fellowships from the NEA and Artist Trust, a Pushcart Prize, a Washington State Book Award (for Plume), and an American Library Association Notable Book Award (for Famous). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Image, Orion, the anthologies Cascadia Field Guide and Poetry Unbound, and in the documentary film, Richland, now streaming on Apple TV. She served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014.
Suzanne Edison’s book, Since the House Is Burning by MoonPath Press was published in 2022. Her chapbooks, The Body Lives Its Undoing, and The Moth Eaten World* were published in 2018 and 2014 respectively. Poetry can be found in: The Missouri Review; Quartet Journal; Verse Daily; SWWIM EveryDay; Solstice Literary Magazine; MER; The Nature of Our Times; Whale Road Review; Lily Poetry Review; JAMA, and elsewhere. She has been awarded grants from Artist Trust; Seattle City Artists, and 4Culture of King County, Seattle, and is a Hedgebrook alumna. She lives in Seattle, is an avid gardener, and cloud-watcher.
Hosted by poet laureate Erin Malone!
Sign up to read opens at 6:45pm. Ages 14+
*Cookies, courtesy of T & C, wine, and tea will be served.
*Location: Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110.
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