{"id":387,"date":"2012-04-29T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T05:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2012-07-01T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T23:10:15","slug":"tess-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Tess Gallagher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sah Sin <\/em>was published with Tess Gallagher’s permission for a two-month period.<\/p>\n

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Sah Sin<\/em> is the Nootka word for hummingbird. \u00a0“Sah Sin”<\/em> appears in Tess Gallagher’s latest collection,\u00a0Midnight Lantern<\/em> (Gray Wolf, 2011)<\/p>\n

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Poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright, Tess Gallagher<\/a> was born in Port Angeles, Washington. She received a BA and MA from the University of Washington, where she studied creative writing with Theodore Roethke, <\/a>and a MFA from the University of Iowa.\u00a0Her most recent collection of poems is Midnight Lantern<\/a><\/em> (Gray Wolf Press, 2011). \u00a0Her first collection, Instructions to the Double,<\/em> <\/a>won the 1976 Elliston Book Award for “best book of poetry published by a small press.” Other collections include her first New and Selected,\u00a0Willingly <\/a><\/em>(1984)<\/a>;\u00a0\u00a0Dear Ghosts<\/em> <\/a>(Graywolf Press, 2006); My Black Horse: New and Selected Poems<\/em> <\/a>(1995); Owl-Spirit Dwelling<\/em> (1994); and \u00a0Moon Crossing Bridge<\/em> (1992), written\u00a0to and about her husband, author Raymond Carver, who died in 1988.\u00a0About Gallagher’s work, the poet Hayden Carruth wrote, “Gallagher’s poems, beyond their delicacy of language, have a delicacy of perception, and the capacity to see oneself objectively as another person doing the things one really does, with clear affection and natural concern.” Her honors include a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, two National Endowment of the Arts Awards, and the Maxine Cushing Gray Foundation Award.<\/p>\n

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Sah Sin was published with Tess Gallagher’s permission for a two-month period.   Sah Sin is the Nootka word for hummingbird. \u00a0“Sah Sin” appears in Tess Gallagher’s latest collection,\u00a0Midnight Lantern (Gray Wolf, 2011)   Poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright, Tess … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,8],"tags":[134,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}