Jennifer A Sutherland
@jasutherland.bsky.social
House of Myth & Necessity, coming 2026. Bullet Points: A Lyric, River River Books. Work in Plume, Birmingham Poetry Review, Hopkins Review, $ (Poetry is Currency), Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Parhelion, Cagibi. Jenniferasutherland.com
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We love to see our authors send such beautifully intelligent and good work into the world on behalf of others—fills our cup up 💙💙💙
Read @jasutherland.bsky.social’s new review of Erin C. Murphy’s Human Resources (Grayson Books, 2025) in Plume: plumepoetry.com/jennifer-a-s... #poetry #booksky
Read @jasutherland.bsky.social’s new review of Erin C. Murphy’s Human Resources (Grayson Books, 2025) in Plume: plumepoetry.com/jennifer-a-s... #poetry #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
We love to see our authors send such beautifully intelligent and good work into the world on behalf of others—fills our cup up 💙💙💙
Read @jasutherland.bsky.social’s new review of Erin C. Murphy’s Human Resources (Grayson Books, 2025) in Plume: plumepoetry.com/jennifer-a-s... #poetry #booksky
Read @jasutherland.bsky.social’s new review of Erin C. Murphy’s Human Resources (Grayson Books, 2025) in Plume: plumepoetry.com/jennifer-a-s... #poetry #booksky
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This is just to say
I have eaten
the swans
that were in
the duck pond
and which
you were probably
saving
for the King
Forgive me
they were delicious
so white
and so necky
I have eaten
the swans
that were in
the duck pond
and which
you were probably
saving
for the King
Forgive me
they were delicious
so white
and so necky
September 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This is just to say
I have eaten
the swans
that were in
the duck pond
and which
you were probably
saving
for the King
Forgive me
they were delicious
so white
and so necky
I have eaten
the swans
that were in
the duck pond
and which
you were probably
saving
for the King
Forgive me
they were delicious
so white
and so necky
Write poems. Read poems.
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Write poems. Read poems.
Because with everything else going on billionaires still suck.
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Because with everything else going on billionaires still suck.
At a Chili’s in Amherst, AMA
September 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
At a Chili’s in Amherst, AMA
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this summit could have been a text
August 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
this summit could have been a text
Adam Zagajewski
August 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Adam Zagajewski
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The boys wear
creased trousers and clip-on polyester ties they
tear off when the bell
rings at lunchtime. Then they wriggle
on the blacktop
like earthworms drying up.
This $ deep cut is "Point of Stasis" by @jasutherland.bsky.social!
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creased trousers and clip-on polyester ties they
tear off when the bell
rings at lunchtime. Then they wriggle
on the blacktop
like earthworms drying up.
This $ deep cut is "Point of Stasis" by @jasutherland.bsky.social!
poetrycurrency.com/poem/jennife...
Point of Stasis | Jennifer A Sutherland | $ – Poetry Is Currency
I am waiting at the foot of the concrete steps beneath my neighbor’s maple tree. Every day we walk to school together in these pleated skirts, cardigan sweaters,…
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July 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The boys wear
creased trousers and clip-on polyester ties they
tear off when the bell
rings at lunchtime. Then they wriggle
on the blacktop
like earthworms drying up.
This $ deep cut is "Point of Stasis" by @jasutherland.bsky.social!
poetrycurrency.com/poem/jennife...
creased trousers and clip-on polyester ties they
tear off when the bell
rings at lunchtime. Then they wriggle
on the blacktop
like earthworms drying up.
This $ deep cut is "Point of Stasis" by @jasutherland.bsky.social!
poetrycurrency.com/poem/jennife...
Back to say that immediately after I posted this I got three rejections in a row. Lol
Sorry, I just need to pop in and say writing is keeping me alive again. Grateful for that. Hang in there, all of you.
June 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Back to say that immediately after I posted this I got three rejections in a row. Lol
Sorry, I just need to pop in and say writing is keeping me alive again. Grateful for that. Hang in there, all of you.
June 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Sorry, I just need to pop in and say writing is keeping me alive again. Grateful for that. Hang in there, all of you.
Haven’t been here much because there was rarely much going on. Has that changed?
May 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Haven’t been here much because there was rarely much going on. Has that changed?
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"Margaret kept a bowling pin in the vestibule,
beside the door. She never had to use it but
she reached for it once or twice. The dangers
were all inside that house."
“Margaret of Streeper Street" by @jasutherland.bsky.social
beside the door. She never had to use it but
she reached for it once or twice. The dangers
were all inside that house."
“Margaret of Streeper Street" by @jasutherland.bsky.social
Margaret of Streeper Street — Susurrus
www.susurrusthemagazine.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"Margaret kept a bowling pin in the vestibule,
beside the door. She never had to use it but
she reached for it once or twice. The dangers
were all inside that house."
“Margaret of Streeper Street" by @jasutherland.bsky.social
beside the door. She never had to use it but
she reached for it once or twice. The dangers
were all inside that house."
“Margaret of Streeper Street" by @jasutherland.bsky.social
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"A badger
confronts the hawthorn to preserve
his stores of honey. So I undertake
the domestic necessary."
“Saint Martha at Christmas" by @jasutherland.bsky.social
confronts the hawthorn to preserve
his stores of honey. So I undertake
the domestic necessary."
“Saint Martha at Christmas" by @jasutherland.bsky.social
Saint Martha at Christmas — Susurrus
www.susurrusthemagazine.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"A badger
confronts the hawthorn to preserve
his stores of honey. So I undertake
the domestic necessary."
“Saint Martha at Christmas" by @jasutherland.bsky.social
confronts the hawthorn to preserve
his stores of honey. So I undertake
the domestic necessary."
“Saint Martha at Christmas" by @jasutherland.bsky.social
April was truly the cruelest shittiest month, and most of it didn’t even involve me practicing law.
May 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
April was truly the cruelest shittiest month, and most of it didn’t even involve me practicing law.
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The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!
Poem for a rainy day spent housecleaning, literally and figuratively. Thanks @susurrusmag.bsky.social for letting me share. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/saint-martha...
May 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Poem for a rainy day spent housecleaning, literally and figuratively. Thanks @susurrusmag.bsky.social for letting me share. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/saint-martha...
This is happening tomorrow night! I would love to see you!
April 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This is happening tomorrow night! I would love to see you!
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Hope y’all come out and join us for poetry tomorrow in Durham, NC—
free to all ❤️📚🎙️ Some righteously stunning poets assembling gosh darn it I will try to be AWAKE! 🌙 💫
#ReadingForTheEndOfTheWorld
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry
shadowboxstudio.org/events/readi...
free to all ❤️📚🎙️ Some righteously stunning poets assembling gosh darn it I will try to be AWAKE! 🌙 💫
#ReadingForTheEndOfTheWorld
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry
shadowboxstudio.org/events/readi...
April 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hope y’all come out and join us for poetry tomorrow in Durham, NC—
free to all ❤️📚🎙️ Some righteously stunning poets assembling gosh darn it I will try to be AWAKE! 🌙 💫
#ReadingForTheEndOfTheWorld
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry
shadowboxstudio.org/events/readi...
free to all ❤️📚🎙️ Some righteously stunning poets assembling gosh darn it I will try to be AWAKE! 🌙 💫
#ReadingForTheEndOfTheWorld
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry
shadowboxstudio.org/events/readi...
Hey folks I’m reading new poems ilater this month with Richard Tillinghast, Chet Weise, and Palavi Ahuja. You'll find these poems in the Spring 2025 issue of Birmingham Poetry Review and in my forthcoming book, House of Myth and Necessity.
April 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hey folks I’m reading new poems ilater this month with Richard Tillinghast, Chet Weise, and Palavi Ahuja. You'll find these poems in the Spring 2025 issue of Birmingham Poetry Review and in my forthcoming book, House of Myth and Necessity.
@schumer.senate.gov you are of no use to the decent people of this country. Retire.
March 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
@schumer.senate.gov you are of no use to the decent people of this country. Retire.
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What is that, dear ones? You need to hear some good news? We are bringing you Jennifer A Sutherland’s @jasutherland.bsky.social’s House of Myth and Necessity in Spring 2026! 🌊 🌊 📚 #poetry #booksky 💙📚
Alcestis & math & legal testimony, confession, violence, love—ohh this book is a lyric powerhouse.
Alcestis & math & legal testimony, confession, violence, love—ohh this book is a lyric powerhouse.
February 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What is that, dear ones? You need to hear some good news? We are bringing you Jennifer A Sutherland’s @jasutherland.bsky.social’s House of Myth and Necessity in Spring 2026! 🌊 🌊 📚 #poetry #booksky 💙📚
Alcestis & math & legal testimony, confession, violence, love—ohh this book is a lyric powerhouse.
Alcestis & math & legal testimony, confession, violence, love—ohh this book is a lyric powerhouse.
[Sylvia Plath tries to tell a joke]
A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walked into a bar.
And I ate them like air.
A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walked into a bar.
And I ate them like air.
[Allen Ginsberg tries to tell a joke]
I saw the best priests, rabbis, and ministers of my generation walk into a bar, destroyed by madness, the bartender was starving, hysterical, naked—
I saw the best priests, rabbis, and ministers of my generation walk into a bar, destroyed by madness, the bartender was starving, hysterical, naked—
[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke]
A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b
A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b
February 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
[Sylvia Plath tries to tell a joke]
A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walked into a bar.
And I ate them like air.
A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walked into a bar.
And I ate them like air.
Hey hi hello, I have just been on the phone and I have new book news coming soon 🪽
February 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hey hi hello, I have just been on the phone and I have new book news coming soon 🪽