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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January 13, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Wow! What a gorgeous cover for a writer of such gorgeous poems! Be sure to pre-order @jasutherland.bsky.social's House of Myth and Necessity from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social!
So excited to reveal the cover of House of Myth and Necessity, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and to welcome back our author @jasutherland.bsky.social, also the author of Bullet Points (River River, 2023)! 🎉🎉🎉
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
January 7, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Wow! What a gorgeous cover for a writer of such gorgeous poems! Be sure to pre-order @jasutherland.bsky.social's House of Myth and Necessity from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social!
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So proud of editor @amorak.bsky.social and the forthcoming publication of MOUTH, which you can preorder via the link below 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations, Amorak!
Mouth, my fifth full-length collection of poetry, comes out in just over two weeks from Cornerstone Press. The press and I would be ever so grateful if you ordered a copy from them.
January 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
So proud of editor @amorak.bsky.social and the forthcoming publication of MOUTH, which you can preorder via the link below 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations, Amorak!
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So excited to reveal the cover of House of Myth and Necessity, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and to welcome back our author @jasutherland.bsky.social, also the author of Bullet Points (River River, 2023)! 🎉🎉🎉
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
December 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So excited to reveal the cover of House of Myth and Necessity, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and to welcome back our author @jasutherland.bsky.social, also the author of Bullet Points (River River, 2023)! 🎉🎉🎉
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
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River River author @jasutherland.bsky.social has two new poems in Issue #11 of Biscuit Hill!
Read both here: www.thebiscuithill.com/issue11
Read both here: www.thebiscuithill.com/issue11
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
River River author @jasutherland.bsky.social has two new poems in Issue #11 of Biscuit Hill!
Read both here: www.thebiscuithill.com/issue11
Read both here: www.thebiscuithill.com/issue11
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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!
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...
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...
