Poetic Obituaries: "She told me that it was her greatest dream

to read at the Muse,'" said [Amber Coverdale] Sumrall of [Kathleen Flowers]. Soon enough, she was reading regularly at the event. And, in 2007, Flowers was awarded the first ever Chapbook Award at the "Muse," a prize that allowed her to publish a chapbook of her poetry. "Call it Gladness" was published last year.

"She had a real sense of the sacred," said Joe Stroud, one of the most prominent names in the Santa Cruz poetry community, who taught Flowers at Cabrillo College and in many workshops over the years. "Her work was celebratory, introspective, very much engaged in the natural world."

from Santa Cruz Sentinel: Kathleen Flowers, 1964-2009: A teacher of passion, a poet at heart

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