Book Launch: Slow Now With Clear Skies by Julene Tripp Weaver

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invites you to celebrate the launch of author latest book  Folio: The Seattle AthenaeumJulene Tripp Weaver's Slow Now With Clear Skies.

Julene will be in conversation with author and returning Folio guest . Enjoy readings from fellow authors and, and join us for a reception to conclude the evening.Priscilla LongJohn Burgess, Stephen Jackson Clare Johnson

I must/ slow down, touch earth, find/ the smooth stone in my pocket... These lines are at the heart of both Julene Tripp Weaver's poem, "Safe Space," and her necessary poetry collection. Weaver uses images from her own life and the viruses that plague our world to witness suffering. And to acknowledge that all of us have been changed over the Covid years. Everyone lives on a spectrum/ of health and neuroticism, she tells us.

She offers no easy answers to how we might heal in a dangerous world when…