{"id":945,"date":"2012-09-28T21:16:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T05:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2012-09-28T21:16:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T05:16:36","slug":"laura-gamache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Laura Gamache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN GRAVEYARD,<br \/>\nDIA DE LOS MUERTOS<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cAesthetic distance<br \/>\n<\/em><em>can save your life.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><em>-Mark Doty<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Skull Point bone sand<br \/>\npebble baby teeth<br \/>\nunder the gibbous moon.<\/p>\n<p>How will your children<br \/>\ndecorate your sugar skull?<br \/>\nBlue icing lips to kiss them with.<\/p>\n<p>Mist kisses the moon \u2013<br \/>\nMakes it disappear behind<br \/>\nthe mountain with Scottish name.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndian Graveyard, Dia de Los Muertos\u201d appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/floatingbridgepress.fatcow.com\/fb-review\/\"><em>Floating Bridge Review.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seattle poet and educator<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08138808864733284833\"> Laura Gamache<\/a> has poetry appearing or forthcoming in <em>Clackamas Literary Review, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crabcreekreview.org\/\">Crab Creek Review,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scn.org\/floatingbridge\/p7_main.html\">Pontoon 7 &amp; 10,<\/a> South Dakota Review,<\/em> and online journals<em> Avatar Review, LocusPoint: Seattle,<\/em> and <em>Menacing Hedge,<\/em> among others. She has published essays in <em>Teachers &amp; Writers Magazine<\/em> and the anthology <em>Classics in the Classroom,<\/em> as well as fiction in<em> North Atlantic Review.<\/em> She was chosen as a J<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackstraw.org\/programs\/writers\/WritersForum\/index.html\">ack Straw Writer<\/a> in 1999 and 2002. Laura teaches throughout the Northwest, including for the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lectures.org\/wits\/wits_news.php\"> Seattle Arts &amp; Lectures\u2019 WITS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiloquin.com\/cvip_1.html\">Sprague Williamson Writers in Residence<\/a> Programs. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington in 1993, where she directed the MFA Writers in the Schools Program for ten years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN GRAVEYARD, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS \u201cAesthetic distance can save your life.\u201d -Mark Doty Skull Point bone sand pebble baby teeth under the gibbous moon. How will your children decorate your sugar skull? Blue icing lips to kiss them with. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=945\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,8,93,1],"tags":[310,309,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"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=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}