Poet Kevin Craft on “Sound Focus”

June 16, 2008

Kevin Craft

If you missed any of this year’s Jack Straw Reading Series, you can tune in to the “Sound Focus” archive to hear portions of the live reading featuring poet and 2008 Jack Straw Writer Kevin Craft on the weekly literary segment produced by Elizabeth Austen.

Kevin Craft hails from the mid-Atlantic zones of the USA. Born in Delaware and raised in southern New Jersey, he holds a BA in English and French from the University of Maryland and an MFA in English from the University of Washington. His first book, Solar Prominence (Cloudbank Books), won the Samuel & Rhea Gorsline Prize in 2004. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), Camargo Foundation (France), and Washington Arts Commission/Artist Trust. He teaches at EverettCommunity College and at the UW’s RomeCenter in Italy.

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