Kathleen Flenniken is author of the poetry collection Dressing in the Dark, part of the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series edited by Linda Bierds and published in September 2025 with Lynx House Press. Her three previous collections include Pos…
The poems in Kathleen Flenniken’s new collection move in and out of memory, imagination, and present time with a sure voice alive to meaning and the layered and complex unity that is a human life. Her speaker suffers the loss of a breast; t…
The poems in Kathleen Flenniken’s new collection move in and out of memory, imagination, and present time with a sure voice alive to meaning and the layered and complex unity that is a human life. Her speaker suffers the loss of a breast; t…
January 8, 2026: A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series (remote), with poets Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Cindy Veach, and Nathan Spoon. Register here. January 27, 2026: With poet Laura Da’, author of Severalty, at Eagle Harbor Books on Bainb…
This page contains links and resources for readers interested in the Hanford Story behind the collection Plume. Kathleen Flenniken’s second collection of poems, Plume, was selected by Linda Bierds for the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, an…
from Old French estranger, from Late Latin extrāneāre, to treat as a stranger So much sadness in two syllables. To say it, to be mid-saying it, is to enter from a sunny antechamber (because time stretches inside some words) for clues or any…