Jackie Craven

Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts

Still flying high after an amazing weekend at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem. I loved reading with Sarah Giragosian, Maggie Greaves, and Barbara Ungar, AND the audience at our "Science and Poetry" panel asked really interesting and important questions.

You Want to Be a Better Writer? Observe Chicken Behavior Chickens exhibit a wide range of behaviors that are vital for their well-being and survival, including foraging, preening, and complex vocalizations. You are a writer, and like a chicken, require c…

Malia Márquez considers the similarities between being a writer and being a chicken.

Thank you to Athena Kalos! I loved our conversation about surrealism and the writing process, and I'm excited to see your interview posted at the Rutgers University Journal, Writers House Review. ❤ sites.rutgers.edu/writers-hous...

Forever revisiting this:

May Day Rally · May Day Strong Join us Midday May Day * International Workers Day * Thursday May 1st, 11am downtown Albany! Local organizations, workers, students, tax payers, friends and neighbors will rally and mobilize against ...

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Rally” - 11 AM SUNY System Administration Building, 353 Broadway, Albany. Join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

I STOP WRITING THE POEM to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.

Oh this hurt. By the brilliant Tess Gallagher.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

every word of this

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Matinee BY ANDREA COHEN Today the part of love will be played by regret. Memory will be played by what if, tragedy by the saxophonist. Silence will be played by silence. There will be no intermission.

This actually crushed my heart today.

1290: Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard Today’s poem is Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard.

"Listen, he said, that’s where language ends." 💥 "Statement of Teaching Philosophy" by Keith Leonard ~ www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

Sea Calm How still How strangely still The water is today. It is not good For water To be still that way.

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From 'The Weary Blues' (1926)
—Langston Hughes

#blackhistorymonth #poetry #ForgottenPoets

Clara Reading, Federico Faruffini, 1865. Welcome to poet George Bilgere’s online newsletter. Every day George selects a poem by a writer he’s crazy about and he says a few words about why he picked it.

Books... so much more durable than we are. ❤️ "And Yet the Books" by Czeslaw Milosz. www.georgebilgere.com/so/05P3WJ5sw

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://jackiecraven.substack.com/p/can-feelings-think

I'm honored to have a prose piece and a playful quarrel with Siri in the newest issue of @TimberJournal . Thank you to the editors! 📷
https://timberjournal.org/archive/two-pieces-2

My name is Jackie and I can't stop revising.📷 https://jackiecraven.substack.com/p/is-a-poem-ever-finished

Thank you to the Vassar Review for including my poem in the gorgeous 2024 Design and Devotion issue.
https://vassar-review.vassarspaces.net/create-your-website-with-blocks/2024-2/

WHISHing through the weekend. 😃

Join me Sunday, May 5, at 2:00 ET for a reading from WHISH, a Q&A, and an open mic hosted on ZOOM by the International Women's Writing Guild. https://iwwg.org/event-5711265

A funny thing happened on the way from the printer's ... https://open.substack.com/pub/jackiecraven/p/misprints-and-mind-melds?r=39bq4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Just sittin’ by the Mohawk River, watching the moon nibble the sun.
#eclipse #schenectady #jackiecraven

Polar ice is melting and changing Earth’s rotation. It’s ... One day in the next couple of years, everyone in the worl...

Melting polar ice is changing the Earth's spin and we are losing time. And I thought I was crazy when I wrote about minutes running amok in WHISH. 😲
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/climate/timekeeping-polar-ice-melt-earth-rotation/index.html

Thinking of my sister, Sharon Craven Kinzer, on her birthday. Placing one of her paintings on the cover of WHISH is my small way of honoring her genius. More of her work can be seen at https://sharoncravenkinzer.com

Checking the final proof … Books coming soon!

Slippery Hours & Speed Writing… Remember to turn back your clocks!

I'm so happy to be in the gorgeous new issue of Alaska Quarterly Review. 😍

Craven-Win24 — DMQ Review

I'm thrilled to be included in the wonderful prose poem issue from DMQ Review! https://www.dmqreview.com/cravenwin24

Time is complicated, and the cover of my collection of time-themed poems features an intricate trompe l’oeil painting by my sister, Sharon Craven Kinzer. The book ships in April, but you can preorder it now from Press 53. https://press53.com/poetry-collections/whish-poems

Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who followed my daily posts. Now that the 2023 challenge is complete, here’s something different for 2024. Check out my new page on Substack. You can sign up to subscribe or just visit me at https://jackiecraven.substack.com/archive 🙂

A century will pass before the world sees a date as magical as 12/31/23. Numerologists say the repeating number sequence brings positive energy. And, add up the numbers and you get a perfect dozen!
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