Jackie Craven – Trish Hopkinson

Ekphrastic Poetry: A Writer Finds Messages in Her Mother's Art – guest blog post by Jackie Craven

By Trish Hopkinson on October 14, 2018 • ( 4 Comments )

Sorting through my mother’s belongings, I uncovered a perplexing life. She was an artist and a connoisseur of the absurd. As a child, I admired her paintings, but tiptoed past the stranger ones. In nightmares, my mother stood in a dark closet behind a portrait of a gnarled […]

Hypertext Taught Me a New Way to Write – guest blog post by Jackie Craven

By Trish Hopkinson on September 11, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

Before I turned to poetry, I wrote hypertext. In the mid-'90s, writing for the Web felt new and thrilling. There was no Facebook, no Twitter, no Google. Just me, my IBM, and the squeal of a modem hooking up with the world. I plugged into a gig writing […]