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Author: Jackie

Old Woman with Goose

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Ekphrastic poem by Jackie Craven.

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Maroger’s Magic

Jackie Inspirations
3 Monkeys on a roof watch a man in costume perform a ritual

Philosophical monkeys perch on a roof in this surrealistic scene. What are they trying to say?

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Flight

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Abstract painting with orange, red, and black

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.

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Hay Castle, Home of a Self-Made King

Jackie Literary Travel Castle Tours, Literary Tours, Wales
Hay Castle, Wales. Crown Copyright. VisitWales.com

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.

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In Which I Try to Leave My Husband, But Cannot Find the Words

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Jabberwocky-style poem by Jackie Craven, from The Massachusetts Review.

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Stopping by the Columbarium on a Sunny Afternoon

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SHARE THIS PAGE

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Venus and the Half-Shell

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Two paintings of Venus with a half-shell, one by Botticelli and one by American painter Louise Craven Hourrigan

Two views of Venus, one from the Renaissance, and one from the 20th century. Both tell a story about manufactured beauty.

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OUR LIVES BECAME UNMANAGEABLE

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Whirlpool Painting

Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Award ~ “Comical and strange, yet heartbreakingly familiar” ~ A surrealistic collage of linked tales by Jackie Craven ~

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Lobster for Lunch

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Ekphrastic poem by Jackie Craven

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What the Monkey Says

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Ekphrastic poem by Jackie Craven

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