{"id":822,"date":"2012-08-30T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2013-09-30T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T23:00:43","slug":"janet-norman-knox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Janet Norman Knox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wyckoff Superfund Site Sheetpile Wall
\nAfter Matthea Harvey<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Consider the wall, its forced embrace,
\nholding back, holding arm\u2019s length.<\/p>\n

Consider the salt, its corrosive face,
\ntrading electrons for rust,<\/p>\n

turning iron to ore to dust
\nto its mantle-fed home.<\/p>\n

Home to the wall
\nto consider its inside, faced<\/p>\n

with floating
\noil, sinking blebs\u2014<\/p>\n

like canola, molasses, caramel
\nto coat a face<\/p>\n

of wood against sea\u2014home
\nof many eating things.<\/p>\n

Consider your face, its flush
\nof bacteria coating,<\/p>\n

trace the line of your cheek,
\none finger trading<\/p>\n

a trail of cells
\nmine to yours, yours<\/p>\n

on my fingertip holding
\nan armful of home.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Seven-time Pushcart nominee and finalist for the Discovery\/The Nation Award, Janet Norman Knox\u2019s<\/a> poems have appeared in Los Angeles Review, 5 AM, Crab Creek Review,<\/a> Rhino, Diner, Seattle Review, Adirondack Review, Poetry Southeast, Red Mountain Review, <\/em>and Diagram.<\/em><\/a> Her chapbook, Eastlake Cleaners When Quality & Price Count [a romance]<\/em> <\/a>received the Editor\u2019s Award<\/a> (Concrete Wolf, 2007). She received the Ruskin Poetry Prize (Red Hen Press) in 2008. The Los Angeles Review<\/em> nominated her for 2010 Best New Poets. Her poetry was used by composer Paul Lewis<\/a> for his 2006 opera, Last Poem on Earth. She participated in a 2011 Jack Straw Foundation\u00a0Grant<\/a> in collaboration with artist Syracuse University Professor Anne Beffel.\u00a0<\/a>Janet Norman Knox is also an owner of 25-year old Pacific Groundwater Group, an environmental and water resource consulting firm. She is an Environmental Geochemist specializing in contaminant investigations and cleanup like a doctor of the land.<\/p>\n

Janet will be giving a Pocket Concert<\/a> at the Seattle Repertory Theatre on September 28, 2012.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: \u00a0Janet Knox’s poem, “Carbon Shining on our Faces”<\/a> is worked into bars of glycerin soap available from the Brightwater Environmental Education Center for a limited time. \u00a0(September 30, 2013)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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