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Kevin Craft is the executive editor of
Poetry Northwest Editions. He is the author of
Solar Prominence, and editor of five volumes of the anthology
Mare Nostrum. He is the director of the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College, and teaches in the University of Washington¿s Creative Writing in Rome Program.
List of contents
Part One
1. Vagrants
2. Borders without Doctors
3. The Descent
4. Carousel
5. The Changeling
6. Among the Cypresses (23 Remedies)
7. After Caravaggio
8. Carbon Copy
9. Utilitarianism
10. Cycladic Head
11. Les Calanques
12. The Weir
13. Wilson's Warbler
Part Two
1. Matinee
2. Untitled #10
3. Parents
4. The Beardsley Limner
5. Small Government
6. Flash Drive
7. For the Climbers
8. Skunk Cabbage
9. Not Waving but Growling
10. God: A Study
11. On a Friday
12. Finesse
Part Three
1. Transparency
2. Linear A
3. Persona Non Grata
4. On Turning 38 in Rome
5. New Volunteer at the Art Museum
6. Nisqually Delta
7. Lignum Vitae
8. Linear B
9. Carmen Saeculare
10. Parakeets in Rome
11. The Quagmire
12. Bivalve Lullaby
13. Low Hanging Fruit
Part Four
1. Old Paradox
2. Accidentals
3. Entanglement (Sombrero)
4. Core Sample
5. Therefore Wander
6. Entanglement (Satellite)
7. Pigeon Guillemots
8. The Break
9. House Finch in Bird Bath
10. An Illustrated Guide to Feathers
11. Hard Return
12. The Undertow
13. One Atmosphere
About the author
Kevin Craft is the editor of
Poetry Northwest. His books include
Solar Prominence (Cloudbank Books, 2005), and five volumes of the anthology
Mare Nostrum, an annual collection of Italian translation and Mediterranean-inspired writing. His poems, review and essays have appeared widely in such places as
Poetry,
AGNI,
Verse,
Ninth Letter,
Alaska Quarterly Review,
Southwest Review,
The Stranger, and
West Branch. A Bread Loaf Scholar in 1996, he has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, t Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), the Camargo Foundation (France), 4Culture, and Artist Trust. He lives in Seattle, and directs both the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College and the University of Washington's Creative Writing in Rome Program.
