Coming Home

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The fourth installment in one poet's journey of healing </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Coming Home</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> grapples with questions of identity and roots the seeds of who we are and how much control we have over who we're becoming. It questions whether home is only a place where we sleep and eat someplace we come back to every night or is something we take with us each day when we walk out that door. If we find peace within ourselves what's to stop us from cultivating it everywhere else?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Craig Randall is a poet author and teacher who lives in Corvallis OR with his wife children two cats and dog. A passionate advocate for mental health his body of work is a byproduct of his own battles with anxiety and depression and has served as a vehicle for empathy healing and connection. His works include two novels </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Doom that Came to Astoria</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Dreams in the Pearl House </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>of The Northwest Trilogy</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and three collections of poetry </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To Chase the Sun </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Among the Wildflower </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Rain Songs. </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A fourth volume of poetry Coming Home will release Winter 2025 and the third and final volume of The Northwest Trilogy will release in 2025.</span></p>