Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken will read from her recent work and discuss her literary career at 7 p.m. in the Museum of Art/WSU Pullman. Flenniken graduated from WSU in 1983 with a degree in civil engineering. Her address is part of the 2013 WSU Visiting Writer Series hosted by the Department of English and is free to the public. Flenniken’s childhood near the Hanford nuclear site provided compelling background for her work on Plume, winner of the 2013 Washington State Book Award, which uses poetry to plumb the Hanford experience—the science, secrecy, and enduring effects of radiation, including illness and death. Another of her books, Famous, earned the American Library Association’s “Notable Book” distinction and the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.