Award Name Washington State Book Award Award category Poetry Description The Poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West.
Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared to fuel the bomb," and worked at Hanford herself as a civil engineer and hy.
Award Name Washington State Book Award Award category Poetry Description The Poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West