Jackie Craven
Travel Journalist at Freelance
What if Hours Could Speak? — Jackie Craven reimagines time in a prize-winning poetry collection: WHISH from Press 53.
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Aug 1, 2024 |
jackiecraven.substack.com | David Kirby |Jackie Craven |Broken promises
Of course they do! In Emily Dickinson’s world, hope has feathers and perches in the soul. For Juan Ramón Jiménez, music becomes“a naked woman / running mad through the pure night.” (Translated by Robert Bly) There’s something magical about poems that breathe life into the intangible. Grief rows a leaking boat. Democracy careens along drowsy lanes. Bliss bursts from thorny thickets. How do writers make such wild leaps?
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Jun 1, 2024 |
jackiecraven.substack.com | Jackie Craven
Walt Whitman must have felt this when he relentlessly revised Leaves of Grass. Between 1855 and 1881 he published nine versions of the book, adding almost 400 new poems in the process. Yeats also could not let go. Draft after draft, printing after printing, he chased rainbows. Meanwhile, Mary Shelly gave Frankenstein a makeover 26 years after the original publication. I understand the impulse. Like Frankenstein's monster, my poems are made of moveable parts.
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May 2, 2024 |
jackiecraven.substack.com | Jackie Craven
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Jackie Craven toys with time in WHISH, winner of the 2024 Press 53 Award for Poetry. Surreal prose blocks follow the uneasy relationship between a wistful narrator and shape-shifting characters—managers, bookkeepers, secretaries—who manifest as hours of the day."It’s rare to find such perfect prose poetry," says series editor, Tom Lombardo.
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Jan 1, 2024 |
jackiecraven.substack.com | Jackie Craven
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RT @TimberJournal: TIMBER is thrilled to announce our nominations for the 2025 #PushcartPrize. Congratulations to: Jackie Craven @kginderm…
Reedsy Peoples: My book, WHISH, launches on the Discovery pages today. Please upvote me if you can. https://t.co/gKSkGTngJC
Last week in Lake George I had so much fun sharing this prompt with writers at St. Mary’s on the Lake. Amazing poetry and lots of laughter. 😃 Here's the activity: https://t.co/5lmYGugDqG https://t.co/BhHZpnDYw5