She's also one of this year's judges for the Sue C. Boynton poetry contest up here in Bellingham -- they're the people who put poetry on all the buses and in front of the library.

We -- that is, Poetrynight, the poetry organization I work for -- recorded the awards ceremony this year, and you'll be able to hear it and Ms. Flenniken on our podcast at podcast.poetrynight.org or by searching the iTunes store for Bellingham Poetry.

Katheen taught my senior year writing class and was amazing. I'm really liking her poems.