Ekphrastic poem by Jackie Craven.
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Maroger’s Magic
Philosophical monkeys perch on a roof in this surrealistic scene. What are they trying to say?
Flight
As a child, I didn’t know what to make of my mother’s wild brush strokes. She didn’t title this painting, so the subject is a mystery.
Hay Castle, Home of a Self-Made King
Thanks to the eccentric British bibliophile, the sleepy Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye became a world-famous literary center and the site of the famous Hay Festival held every spring in Wales and various times of the year in a dozen other countries, from Nigeria to Bangladesh. Story from the Providence Sunday Journal.
In Which I Try to Leave My Husband, But Cannot Find the Words
Jabberwocky-style poem by Jackie Craven, from The Massachusetts Review.
Stopping by the Columbarium on a Sunny Afternoon
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Venus and the Half-Shell
Two views of Venus, one from the Renaissance, and one from the 20th century. Both tell a story about manufactured beauty.
OUR LIVES BECAME UNMANAGEABLE
Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Award ~ “Comical and strange, yet heartbreakingly familiar” ~ A surrealistic collage of linked tales by Jackie Craven ~
Lobster for Lunch
Ekphrastic poem by Jackie Craven
What the Monkey Says
Ekphrastic poem by Jackie Craven