Writing Without Paper: February 2012

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Leap With the French, 'Reframed'

Winter can be dreary but thanks to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., we have the French, newly "reframed", to cheer us up on Leap Day.

Two years ago, the NGA undertook to renovate and restore its galleries of prized Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gaugin. (The permanent collection numbers nearly 400 paintings, including major holdings from the Joseph Widener bequest of 1942 and the Chester Dale Collection given to the museum in 1962.) In late January, the museum announced the reopening of those galleries, celebrating the weekend of January 28 with a festival of French music from the 1870s, a screening of French CanCan (Jean Renoir, 1954), and a lecture about the "new look" with Mary Morton, curator and head of the department of French paintings. The museum plans a two-day public symposium on the reinstallation for April 27 and April 28. (For other related events, go here.)

In the NGA's reconceived design for the galleries in its West Building, the masters' paintings have been reinstalled in thematic, monographic, and art historical groups. One installation, for example, features avant-garde Paris circa 1900, as represented in the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, and Henri Rousseau, while another combines Cezanne's landscapes, still lifes, and figure paintings.

As part of the initiative, the NGA restored 13 artworks, including Renoir's well-known and popular A Girl with a Watering Can (1876) and Monet's The Bridge at Argenteuil (1874). And on view for the first time is Gustave Courbet's The Black Rocks at Trouville (1865-1866).

If you can't get to D.C. to see the renovated galleries, do the next best thing and explore some of the links above and below. Even virtually, the paintings will inspire and delight, no matter the day's temperature.

Selected Images

Checklist of Paintings, Gallery by Gallery

National Gallery of Art on FaceBook and Twitter

Don't-Miss Online Resources

The Collection: French Painting of the 19th Century ~ Beginning with a brief overview, this resource includes a selection of online "tours", in some cases with audio: Manet and His Influence, The Beginnings of Impressionist Landscape, Impressionism, Postimpressionism, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gaugin, Mary Cassatt: Selected Paintings, Mary Cassatt, August Renoir, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Romantics and Realists. Also available are several in-depth examinations of the work of Edgar Degas (The Dance Lesson) and Edouard Manet (The Railway, The Dead Toreador and The Bullfight, small French paintings from the Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Paul Mellon collections), and a virtual Van Gogh exhibition, "Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam").

Picturing France, 1830-1900 ~ Created for NGA Classroom, this is a downloadable educational resource about 19th Century painting in France, organized by region and showcasing more than 50 works of art.

Video on Chester Dale

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Many Years Married (Poem)

Many Years Married

1

She always used waxed paper,
and he — his thick, calloused fingers

thumbing the folds at noon— would lift
to his hunger-timed mouth each wedge

of cheddar her blue-vesseled hands
slipped between slices of honeyed ham

resting in two crusted pockets of bread
she'd spread with a knife's point of mustard.

2

Once, to show how much he loved
her, he gave her a Shaker's nest

of boxes — large secreting small, one
measured to accept the other, in form

and pattern perfectly sized — and watched
her eyes dart to the last, its red and green

confetti filling her lap, hiding nothing but
what was the emptiness she found there.

3

The afternoon he died he was doing
what she wanted, ignoring all the signs

his body was sending, waiting for
the one moment he could say the words

and put his right hand there, on his heart
that had been broken.

© 2011, 2012 Maureen E. Doallas

Monday, February 27, 2012

Monday Muse: Naomi Long Madgett

Poetry is a universal means of expression and is open

to so many interpretations. It makes me very happy

to leave a legacy of words that other people can relate to.

~ Poet Naomi Long Madgett*

An award-winning 82-minute documentary about the life and work of Detroit Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett (b. 1923), STARbySTAR: Naomi Long Madgett, Poet & Publisher introduces us to an extraordinary woman: the "Godmother of African American poetry".

Madgett, professor emeritus of English at Eastern Michigan University, has published 10 poetry collections, including One and the Many (1956), Star by Star (Harlo Press, 1965), Pink Ladies in the Afternoon (1972), Exits and Entrances (Lotus Press, 1978; via resellers), Remembrances of Spring: Collected Early Poems (Michigan State University Press, 1993), Octavia: Guthrie and Beyond (1988; Lotus Press, 2002; also available through Wayne State University Press), and Connected Islands: New and Selected Poems (Lotus Press, 2004). In addition, she has published several textbooks, including A Student's Guide to Creative Writing (Michigan State University Press, 1980), and an autobiography, Pilgrim Journey (Lotus Press, 2006).

The founder of Lotus Press, Madgett also is the editor of two anthologies, one of which, Adam of Ife: Poetry in Praise of Black Men (Lotus Press, 1992), presents the poetry of 55 African-American women. Earlier this year, Madgett became the recipient of the Kresge Foundation's $50,000 2012 Eminent Artist Award. That prize follows a long list of citations, including an American Book Award, a Governor of Michigan Artist Award, a College Language Association Creative Achievement Award, a Black Scholar Magazine Award of Excellence, induction in The Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, and several honorary degrees. A national competition open to African-American poets is named for her. Widely published, the Virginia-born Madgett was just 13 when her first poem appeared in a local newspaper, 15 when she met Langston Hughes, who autographed one of his poetry books for her, and 17 when her first collection, Songs to a Phantom Nightingale, debuted.

Using historical photographs and documents, interviews, and footage of poetry readings, filmmaker David B. Schock traces Madgett's cultivation of her poetic voice, her years as a teacher, and her commitment to Detroit, where she has been a tireless activist, arts supporter, and literary influence.

Here's the trailer for STARbySTAR:

The film is available as a DVD.

This 15:12-minute interview also is worth your listening time:

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Resources

* Quoted from "Detroit's Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett Named 2012 Kresge Eminent Artist", Press Release, January 27, 2012

"Congratulations, Naomi Long Madgett", Huffington Post, January 30, 2012

"Detroit Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett Wins Kresge Foundation's Highest Honor", Detroit Free Press, January 27, 2012

"Naomi Long Madgett First Woman to Win Eminent Artist Award", Poets&Writers, January 27, 2012

Biographies or Profiles of Naomi Long Madgett Online: African American Registry, Lotus Press, The History Makers, Michigan State University Press, Museum of Learning

Interviews with Naomi Long Madgett Online: KGB Bar Lit Magazine, BlogTalkRadio (2011); Art on Air, Cave Canem Legacy Conversation Series (2006); CastTV Videos

Poems of Naomi Long Madgett Online: "On Corcovado Mountain", "Packrat", and "Renewal" at Naomi Long Madgett; "Alabama Centennial" and "Midway" at Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement; "Phillis" at Wheatley Biography; "Morality" and "Quest" at African American Registry; "Woman with Flower" at The Writer's Almanac; "Alabama Centennial", Video, at Poets&Writers; "Black Woman" at Bookaddict4real; "Woman with Flower" at defining parent (same poem is also at Painted Path); "New Day", Video, at DetNews; "Midway" at We Can Fly; "Life"

2011 Outstanding Documentary Award (Media), Historical Society of Michigan

A Poet's Voice at Vander Films (The 27-minute short includes a reading by Madgett. An excerpt is available at the link.)

Four Sisters (x2, +1) (This is a 12:53-minute excerpt from a documentary about a 2010 event featuring appearances by Madgett and poets Melba Joyce Boyd, Marilynn Rashid, and Hilda Vest at the Virgil Carr Center, Michigan Arts League.)

Naomi Long Madgett/Lotus Press Papers: University of Michigan Special Collections Library and Fisk University Special Collections Library; Library of Congress Catalog Record (Correspondence, James A. Emanuel Papers, 1922-1995)

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Thought for the Day

. . . If lucky, love will distract us more than suffering.

If blessed, we are broken of everyone's plans and regrets

and thrown like a hooded bird into a sea of light.

If trusting the fall, we find our wings. . . .

~ Mark Nepo

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Quoted from "Mark Nepo: The One Conversation", January 19, 2012

Mark Nepo

Mark Nepo at Three Intentions

Also see the Writing Without Paper post for February 14, 2010.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Saturday Sharing (My Finds Are Yours)

Today's edition of Saturday Sharing will take you to a site addressing all things Iranian; show you around artist Trong G. Nguyen's library, where all the "books" are made with rice grains; introduce you to Britain's first Children's Laureate Quentin Blake, who is the subject of a new iTunes app; spotlight an online literary magazine for writers who are women; celebrate Charles Dickens with Cambridge University Press, which recently published a facsimile edition of Great Expectations; and leave you moved by an animation of a Charles Bukowski poem.

✦ If you're a writer, you'll want to take stock of Women Writers, Women Books, an online literary magazine launched in 2011 for, by, and about contemporary writers who are women. The reviews, writing advice, publishing how-to, and marketing and promotion tips come from women around the world who write in English. The magazine welcomes guest blog posts; submission guidelines are here.

Women Writers on Facebook and Twitter

✦ Though ad-heavy, the site Payvand carries some interesting and informative features related to art, books, dance, fashion, film, music, photography, and poetry by Iranians and Iranian-Americans. Self-described as "a window into Iran through which we can promote understanding, dialogue, and peace", Payvand also addresses human rights, the environment, technology, and other subjects of importance.

✦ Known for his wonderful illustrations for Roald Dahl stories, Britain's first Children's Laureate Quentin Blake is the subject of a recently released iTunes app: Quentin Blake: As Large as Life. Included are a gallery of high-resolutions images of work that Blake created for hospitals in the United Kingdom and France, an artist interview in which Blake talks about his work methods, and information about two limited-edition prints available for purchase. The material derives from an exhibition in London at The Foundling Museum on view through April 15.

✦ Celebrating the great writer's 200th birthday, Cambridge University Press has published a fascimile edition of Charles Dicken's Great Expectations titled The Manuscript of Great Expectations (December 2011), complete with corrections and alterations in the author's hand. (Some close-ups of pages from the manuscript at here.) Dickens gave the manuscript to a close friend, Chauncy Hare Townshend, who bequeathed it to the Wisbech and Fenland Museum in 1868. For the facsimile, CUP newly photographed the manuscript and reproduced it at size in color.

✦ Vietnamese-born and New York-based artist and curator Trong G. Nguyen has created an unusual library. Each of his "books" is made of rice kernels, each grain of which carries a single word in ink, all combined comprising either the complete text or an individual "chapter"; the title of the book, which carries due dates stamped in black or red, is written on gold-painted rice grains. Among Nguyen's re-creations in rice are all of Roland Barthes's La chambre claire (Camera Lucida), a collection of 48 mylar packets of rice kernels; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; and Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, all shown here. Additional projects are described here.

✦ Today's feature video is the gorgeous "Bluebird" animation by Monika Umba of a Charles Bukowski poem published in the 1992 anthology The Last Night of the Earth Poems. The animation does not include the poem's text. To hear Bukowski (1920-1994) read his own poem, go here (the text is provided with the audio).

My thanks to Moving Poems, Brain Pickings, and The Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog, where the video has been highlighted.

A selection of poems by Bukowski can be found here and here.

Friday, February 24, 2012

All Art Friday

All Art Friday

All Art Friday Spotlights

✦ Congratulations to Marilyn Henrion whose Disturbances, comprising hand-quilted pieced silks, was acquired recently by the Newark Museum for its permanent collection. Henrion's Disturbance series may be seen here. Don't miss Henrion's online gallery. Also see my post of September 15, 2011, "Marilyn Henrion's 'Soft City'".

✦ If you can't travel to see the splendors of stained glass in the world's great churches, do the next best thing: download Art of Stained Glass, for iPhone and iPad. The app, released last summer, offers images by well-known photographers; any image from the slideshow may be used as wallpaper.

✦ Chicago's nonprofit Woman Made Gallery, which aims to "ensure the equal placement of women's art in the world", is the subject of a NEA Art Works post, "Art Talk with Beate Minkovski of Woman Made Gallery". Founded in 1992, the WMG has shown the work of more than 7,000 artists who are women. In addition to exhibitions, it offers programs that seek to educate and enrich the community about the contributions of women to contemporary culture. Take time to browse the site, read the artist calls, view the artisan and many member galleries, and consider the workshops scheduled for this year.

✦ More than 100 guilds around the world, including the United States, make up the Modern Quilt Guild, whose blog The Modern Quilt Guild showcases quilts and quilting techniques. Currently showing are 100 days of block quilts.

Exhibitions Here and There

✭ In Newark, New Jersey, the Newark Museum is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the birth of the studio glass movement in America with "Studio Glass 1962-2012", a survey of work, drawn from the museum's own holdings. Most of the more than dozen pieces on display are recent acquisitions; several are being shown for the first time. Among the important American and European glass artists represented are Dale Chihuly (Permanent Blue Macchia with Cadmium Orange Lip Wrap, 1986), the Czech duo Libensky and Brychtova (cast sculpture), and Toots Zynsky (see image).

Toots Zynsky, Tierra del Fuego, 1989

Glass, 5" x 11" x 7"

Purchase 1990, Thomas L. Raymond Bequest Fund

Newark Museum

Newark Museum on FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, and iTunes

Newark Museum Blog

✭ Through April 8, you'll find on view at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art "Illuminations: Rediscovering the Art of Dale Chihuly". Drawn from the museum's collection, the glass is in newly installed galleries that allow some objects, including Float Boat and Ikebana Boat, to be viewed from all sides. Complementing the show is "Chihuly: Northwest", which includes glass sculptures inspired by Native American baskets, Chihuly's own collection of Native textiles, and pieces from Chihuly's White series, shown recently at Pismo Fine Art Glass.

Dale Chihuly, White Soft Cylinder, 2010

21" x 16" x 15"

Photo: Scott Mitchell Leen

OKCMOA on FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube

Note: The Chihuly Garden and Glass, in Seattle, Washington, opens this spring.

✭ Paper as art form is the subject of an exhibition of Rockford, Illinois, artist Roland Poska, "Pulp and Pigment: The Realms of Roland Poska", on view through May 6 at Rockford Art Museum. Considered a pioneer in the use of handmade paper, the artist (b. 1938 in Scotland) combines pulverized rag fibers with ground raw pigments to construct beautiful abstract paintings that take on the qualities of sculpture; he calls them "papestries". Poska founded Fishy Whale Press in the 1960s and has long worked with leading printmakers. His artwork is in numerous public and private collections.

Roland Poska

Handmade Paper and Ground Raw Pigments

Images of some of Poska's work can be seen here, here, and here.

Roland Poska on FaceBook

The Great Human Race - Fishy Whale on FaceBook

Profile of Roland Poska at Lituanus, Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences

Rockford Art Museum on FaceBook and Twitter

✭ In New York City, The Jewish Museum is presenting through March 25 "The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951". The exhibition includes the documentary photography of Jack Manning, Jerome Liebling, and Sid Grossman, among the work of more than 80 featured artists who photographed New York City's most ordinary inhabitants.

In this short, one of three videos related to the exhibition, Erika Stone, Vivian Cherry, Ida Wyman and Sonia Handelman-Meyer talk about their Photo League experience and work as photographers:

The Jewish Museum on FaceBook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and ArtBabble

The Jewish Museum Blog (You'll find here highlights from the exhibition until its conclusion.)

✭ The Flomenhaft Gallery, also in New York City, is exhibiting a selection of works from its collection of African American artists, including Romare Bearden's collage Up at Minton's, Jacob Lawrence's Chess on Broadway (ink on paper), Faith Ringgold's Double Dutch on the Golden Gate Bridge (acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed, pieced fabric border quilt), and Carrie Mae Weems's four-part suite from Sea Island Series (photographs). The work is on view until March 3. More information about the show is here.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

3-Dimensional Printing

. . . you can download product data from the Web,

perhaps tweak it and personalize it to your own preference

and your own taste, and have that information sent to a desktop

machine that will fabricate it for you on the spot. . . .

How does a thirty-year-old technology finally become commonplace? In this TED Talk, Lisa Harouni, co-founder and CEO of Digital Forming, describes "the extraordinary idea" of 3-D printing, or "additive" manufacturing, and explains why, as many barriers to use have broken down, 2012 may be the year this fascinating technology comes into its own, allowing architects, product designers, and others to create intricate, and often beautiful, bespoke structures, from prototypes of buildings, to once-obsolete spare parts, to personalized merchandise, to medical prostheses that can be constructed no other way. The technology, Harouni emphasizes, is "revolutionary."

Direct Link

Also Of Interest:

3D Printing at Explaining The Future

The World's Smallest 3D Printer

"Could 3D Printing End Our Throwaway Culture?", The Guardian, November 17, 2011

"How 3D Printing Will Change Absolutely Everything It Touches", Forbes, August 17, 2011

"Catastrophe Becomes Art with 3D Printing", PCWorld, November 1, 2011 (See the video here of the beautiful Japanese earthquake sculpture created with 3D printing.)

"3D Printer Art in Belgium", Singularity Hub, February 5, 2010 (Be sure to watch the video included with the article.)

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Wednesday Wonder: Sekko Daigo

Today's Wednesday Wonder is Sekko Daigo, a shodo master, or master of calligraphy. She is recognized throughout Japan and has received much acclaim for her work. Lucky students in Portland have the opportunity to study with her.

In this video, filmed in Oregon during Japanese New Year ("Oshogatsu") celebrations at Portland Japanese Garden, Daigo demonstrates kakizome, the first writing of the new year, which takes place on January 2:

(This video is also available on YouTube. Still photos of Daigo at Portland Japanese Garden may be seen here.)

Daigo creates exquisite Kindaishi (modern style) and Tensho tai (seal script).

Also Of Interest

Japanese Calligraphy Explained

History and Forms of Japanese Calligraphy

Japanese Calligraphy Tools (Also see History, Styles, and Books.)

"Faith and Form: Selected Calligraphy and Painting from Japanese Religious Traditions", Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Interactive)

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Looking for Meaning in Red (Poem)

Looking for Meaning in Red

Fourteen days into February
we pucker lips for scarlet-hued kisses

thick and candied into love's own shapes,
pop sweet nothings off rued tongues,

melt down the chocolate-covered I
-dos before they can clot at the back

of our honking, hoar-frosted throats.
By the first of December, we're looking

for the meaning of color in another twist
on red. I finger that satiny strand

I pinned to my coat's rolled collar,
the longer end of ribbon fraying

like my short-circuiting memory. I'd wear
this emblem on my sleeve but then I

couldn't feel my heart pushing, pressing,
breaking against my thin chest wall.

© 2012 Maureen E. Doallas
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I offer this poem for this month's Random Acts of Poetry prompt, "Red". What's your take on the color? Go here to read the post, then leave your poem or a link to it on the FaceBook Wall for T.S. Poetry Press by tomorrow, February 22. Your contribution could be featured at The High Calling or TweetSpeakPoetry, or in Every Day Poems.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Monday Muse: New Washington Poet Laureate

Kathleen Flenniken was appointed Washington's new State Poet Laureate earlier this month. Only the state's second Poet Laureate, Flenniken will serve a two-year term ending in February 2014.

Samuel Green was Washington's first official state poet, serving from 2007 to 2009, after which the Poet Laureate program was suspended for budgetary reasons. In 2011, agreement was reached to resume the program but without state funds. The $10,000 stipend that Flenniken has received to help cover her activities on behalf of poetry, including public readings, workshops, and lectures, comes from the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Washington; support for the program also comes from private donations. For Flenniken's current schedule of poetry-related events, go here.

Background on the law that established the Poet Laureate program and articles and other laureate-related resources are found in this February 2011 post.

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I started writing poetry in my thirties. I learned what I learned

over pots of spaghetti, a child or two tugging on my pant leg,

and in my precious night class that saved my sanity . . .

It's a joyful way to enter poetry. . . .

~ Kathleen Flenniken*

Award-winning Seattle poet Kathleen Flenniken published Famous (University of Nebraska Press), a debut collection of 51 poems, in 2006; that book received the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award, and was named a Notable Book by American Library Association. Flenniken published this year her second collection, Plume (University of Washington Press; Pacific Northwest Poetry Series), about the nuclear waste dump Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where the poet, a civil engineer and hydrologist, worked there three years. (See the book trailer at the end of this post.) On her Website, Flenniken describes Plume as "part memoir, part history lesson, part cautionary tale, part quest... at its heart a search for identity...."**

Here's a favorite poem of mine from Famous:

The Nuns' Remains

On the eighth day of rain,
the nuns—
stacked in twos
in their Calvary graves—
washed down the hill
to our own back garden,
where each found
a bed of her own.
Mostly they favored
golden rays of early daffodils
or the pheasant eye narcissus
with its delicate crown.
But one chose
the tender white blossoms
of a freesia
which we brought inside.
It smelled like black pepper
and illumined the dark.

What I particularly like about this poem is the depth it acquires as it shifts us from the stunning visual of the graves "washed down the hill" to the garden, which, fed by the remains, blooms. The details ("golden rays" of daffodils with their connotation of rebirth; the "delicate crown" of the pheasant eye narcissus, also known as the poet's narcissus; the flowering of white freesia, symbolizing purity and innocence, which "illumined the dark") take on religious significance but are not in the least heavy-handed. And the wonderful addition of "It smelled like black pepper", keeps the poem grounded and accessible. Like many of Flenniken's poems, this one yields more with a second or third reading.

Flenniken's poems have appeared in American Life in Poetry, DMQ Review, The Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Verse Daily, Willow Springs, and other literary periodicals and anthologies.

In addition to a Pushcart Prize (2012) and an Artist Trust grant, Flenniken has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (2005). President of the nonprofit Floating Bridge Press, which publishes and promotes the work of Washington poets, Flenniken teaches poetry writing through Seattle's Writers in the Schools and other arts programs.

Resources

Poetry © Kathleen Flenniken

* Quoted from Author's Statement at NEA Writer's Corner

** Quoted from Background and Interests Section at Kathleen Flenniken Bio

Mary Ann Gwinn, "Poet Kathleen Flenniken Nabs 'Dream Job'", The Seattle Times, February 9, 2012

Humanities Washington, "Kathleen Flenniken Named Washington State Poet Laureate", Press Release, February 9, 2012

Kathleen Flenniken Profiles at Poetry Foundation, Prairie Schooner, and Poets&Writers

Kathleen Flenniken Poems Online: "The League of Minor Characters" and "Gil's Story" at The Writer's Almanac (Audio Available); "Graphology" at SLOG/Seattle Poetry Chain 25; "What I Learn Weeding" at Verse Daily; "The Man Who Played Too Much Tetris" at Reimagining Place; "Richland Dock, 1956" at Washington State Magazine; "Coyote", "Reading Wells", and "Museum of Doubt", All at DMQ Review; "You only get this haircut", "Matinee", and "Coconut", All at Word Riot; "Elisabeth Reads Poetry" at Clackamas Literary Review; "The Nun's Remains" and "What I Saw" at Crab Creek Review; "Old Woman With Protea Flowers, Kahalui Airport" at American Life in Poetry (also at Poetry Foundation); "Sea Monster" and "The Sound of a Train" at Verse Daily; "Mosquito Truck" at Willow Springs; "It's Not You, It's Me" at Bark; "Sotto Voce" at NEA Writers' Corner; "The Inventors" and "The League of Minor Characters" at In Posse Review; "Out of Cupid's Range", "For Solange", and "The Five Senses", All at Literary Salt; "Lost coat, Pls Call" at The News Tribune; "Horse Latitudes" at Kathleen Flenniken Poems and Orcas Issues (Also see the section "Hear the Poems" at Kathleen Flenniken Poems.)

Video at Story/Stereo 5, March 2010 Reading

Excerpt from Famous (This 13-page pdf is made available through University of Nebraska Press.)

Jeremy Hatch, "A Review of Kathleen Flenniken's Famous", 42opus, Vol. 6, No. 3, November 29, 2006 (Review)

Diane Lockward, "Kathleen Flenniken: 'Famous'", Valparaiso Poetry Review (Review)

Hanford Watch

Humanities Washington State Poet Laureate Page

Washington Poets Association

Washington State Arts Commission

Washington State Arts Commission Page for Samuel Green

Here's the book trailer for Plume: