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Kathleen Flenniken

Kathleen Flenniken
Kathleen Flenniken won the Washington State Book Award for her poetry collection Plume. Her first book, Famous, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Flenniken’s other 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.


The Limits of Patriotism in Present-Day America

"Patriotism is not a poet's word."
November 2, 2020  By Kathleen Flenniken
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