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Jackie Craven is the author of Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters (Brick Road Poetry Press) and Our Lives Became Unmanageable (Omnidawn), winner of the publisher's Fabulist Fiction Award. Her work has also appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod International Journal, River Styx, Salamander, Spillway, Water~Stone Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, and many newspapers and magazines. She's the author of two books on interior design and writes about art, architecture, literature, and other topics for the ThoughtCo reference site for lifelong learners. Follow or Friend her on Facebook at WriterJackieCraven.

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	The Stress-Free Home: Beautiful Interiors for Serenity and Harmonious Living 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Healthy Home: Beautiful Interiors That Enhance the Environment and Your Well-Being 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Lives Became Unmanageable it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Undertow Tanka Review: Issue 5 by Sergio Ortiz (Editor), Anne Curran , Margaret Saine it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Full disclosure: I’m the author, so of course I’m biased! But I want to let readers know why I have special affection for the poems in Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters recently published by Brick Road Poetry Press. They were written during the chaotic years after my parents died. Although not strictly autobiographical, the poems describe a search for answers as I sorted through d...

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Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey

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The Female Man

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Artist's Journal Workshop

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Jackie Craven wrote a new blog post Secrets Revealed Full disclosure: I’m the author, so of course I’m biased! But I want to let readers know why I have special affection for the poems in Secret Formu... Read more of this blog post »
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Jackie Craven rated a book it was amazing Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters by Jackie Craven (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Full disclosure: I'm the author, so of course I will praise this book! But I want to let readers know why I have special affection for the poems in Secret Formulas. They were written during the chaotic years after my parents died. Although not strict ...more
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Jackie Craven rated a book it was amazing The Prisoners by Ace Boggess (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Written behind bars, The Prisoners is a masterly woven collection that explores themes of entrapment, guilt, frustration, and the search for redemption. Lyrical, gut-wrenching, and often darkly humorous, the poems present a Dantesque vision of being ...more
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Jackie Craven liked Ace Boggess's review of Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters: "In this collection, Craven manages to combine ekphrastic and confessional poetry in a way that is surprising, fun, insightful, and sometimes dizzying. The narrators of her poems hurt and hope. They look back with anguish, sadness, but a sense of a..." Read more of this review »
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Jackie Craven liked Ace Boggess's review of I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So: "Aug. 28, 2018. It's release day. I had a lot of fun putting this collection of question poems together. I hope you'll have as much fun reading it."
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Jackie Craven rated a book it was amazing In and Out of Rough Water by Jayne Marek	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jayne Marek's In and Out of Rough Water is a moving and profound collection that transforms the wilderness into a meditation on the human condition. A western prairie morphs into dry pages of a newspaper, trees in winter describe a world where "naked ...more
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Jackie Craven rated a book it was amazing Lauren Bacall Shares a Limousine by Susan J. Erickson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
How could I resist a poetry collection titled Lauren Bacall Shares a Limousine? Even the table of contents is a joy to read. Included are: * "Pantoum for Mata Hari" * "Lady Godiva Reminisces" * "Before Her Round-the-World Flight Amelia Visits With ...more
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read i No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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