Plume

Kathleen Flenniken is the author of two poetry collections: Plume (University of Washington Press, 2012), a meditation on the Hanford Nuclear Site and her hometown of Richland, Washington, won the Washington State Book Award and was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Pacific Northwest Book Awards. Her first book, Famous (University of Nebraska Press, 2006), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Kathleen’s awards include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Artist Trust. She served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014. Kathleen holds an MFA degree in creative writing from Pacific Lutheran University, as well as bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering. She lives in Seattle.

Campaign Q&A, Somewhere in Oregon, May 18, 2008

My Earliest Memory Preserved on Film

Rattlesnake Mountain

Map of Childhood

A Great Physicist Recalls the Manhattan Project

Bedroom Community

Document Control

Mosquito Truck

Herb Parker Feels Like Dancing

Richland Dock, 2006

Days of Clotheslines

Whole-Body Counter, Marcus Whitman Elementary

Plume

To Carolyn’s Father

Afternoon’s Wide Horizon

Redaction I

Green Run

Bird’s Eye View

Richland Dock, 1956

On Cottonwood Drive

Self-Portrait with Father as Tour Guide

Interlude for Dancers

Redaction II

Augean Suite

Siren Recognition

Hand and Foot Count

Atomic Man

Radiation!

The Value of Good Design

Again I’m Asked if I Glow in the Dark

The Cold War

Going Down

Reading Wells

Redaction III

Deposition

Song of the Secretary, Hot Lab

Flow Chart

Coyote

Museum of Doubt

Dinner with Carolyn



Portrait of My Father

Museum of a Lost America

If You Can Read This

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Poet

A Note on the Type