Book Launch: Traverse by Kevin Craft

invites you to celebrate the launch of is the 24th installment in the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, published by Lynx House Press. Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum by author Kevin Craft. Traverse Traverse

Joining Kevin Craft are readers and.Chris Haugen (Acoustic Guitar), Rebecca Hoogs, Sierra Nelson, Katharine Ogle Jason Whitmarsh

Craft’s third collection explores the music, the miscues, the hidden forces and quirks of circumstance that constitute a human life. It’s a book of family origins and discovery, an adoptee’s journey toward self-knowledge, a son’s journey toward becoming (and losing) a parent, navigating the cross-currents of estrangement and acceptance, ecological peril and ambiguous loss. It is also a history of walking, of moving through the world at human speed. As such, maps a new understanding of familial relation, from birth kin to chosen clan, from missing link to known donor children, arcing toward a wider embrace of the generational and archetypal substrates th…