Monday, 22 October 2018
The open mike starts at 8:00 (with sign-up prior to that). Kevin will come on between 8:40 and 8:50 and give us 20 minutes or so of work.
This is a color photograph taken in the Pacific Northwest
KEVIN CRAFT lives in Seattle and directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College. His first book, Solar Prominence (2005), was selected by Vern Rutsala for the Gorsline Prize from Cloudbank Books. A second collection, Vagrants & Accidentals, was recently published in the Pacific Northwest Poets Series of the University of Washington Press (2017). His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared widely in such places as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, City Arts and The Stranger. He has received fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, MacDowell Colony, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), the Camargo Foundation (France), 4Culture, The Jack Straw Cultural Center, and Artist Trust. Craft served as editor of Poetry Northwest from 2009 – 2016. He is now executive editor of Poetry NW Editions, and a director of the UW Writers in Rome program which he has led for nearly 20 years. He believes that poems, like good travelers, live in the go-between.
For many years Craft’s spiritual practice has manifested as desecration of petroglyphs, pictograms, hieroglyphs, and handroglyphs.