"My misery sleeps through sunrise"

A conversation with Jackie Craven about her poem, "Morning Unmoors Us"

It seems reasonable to describe Jackie Craven as a precise and painstaking poet.

Why else would she have 26 drafts of the poem “Morning Unmoors Us” collected in a Word file tracing the poem’s history “like an anthropological record?”

For Craven, it’s all part of the search for the perfect word, the perfect image, the best ways for the lines to break, or…