KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN & JOHN KEEBLE
Friday, January 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Two fine Northwest writers—poet Kathleen Flenniken from here in Seattle and fiction/prose writer John Keeble from his ranch on the other side of the Cascades—pair together for what should be an engaging evening. Both are reading from recent award-winning books—the same award, albeit for poetry and fiction. Kathleen Flenniken has received the Prairie Schooner Prize for Poetry with Famous (University of Nebraska). "Exploring the external trappings of contemporary life as well as the internal cadences of a mind that wants at once to be 'shocking and irresistible,' Kathleen Flenniken takes us into the slipstreams of fame, where our daily dramas play themselves out in the 'wild untended rhythms' of the imagination." - Judith Kitchen. John Keeble has received the Prairie Schooner Prize for Fiction with his book of connected stories, Nocturnal America (University of Nebraska). "Dying is easy, living is hard, as the old saying goes: but even death in all its forms—natural, accidental, or incidental—does not come easily to Keeble's characters. Wisps of malevolence and despair permeate this elegiac set of short stories about people tangled in the mundane and bizarre worlds that seem destined to collide in Keeble's Pacific Northwest, a rich and desolate landscape that yields a limitless trove of both peril and passion." - Carol Haggas, Booklist.

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