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Jennifer Saunders
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Poet, author of Tumor Moon 🌖 Co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation🩸(Querencia Press). Immigrant. Hockey fan. She / her. 🇺🇸/🇨🇭in 🇨🇭

http://www.jennifer-saunders.com
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Just one picture of said child from those days (although here I'm giving my spouse a BIIIIIG side-eye for not holding on tighter)
This picture shows a toddler in a snow suit and wearing a ski helmet slipping down a sledding run backwards, on his back. A rather helpless looking adult is standing at the top of the run.
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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This photo shows an orange kitten with a partially white face sleeping on top of a row of books on a bookshelf
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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This is an image of an ouroboros, a snake swallowing its own tail to create a circle
August 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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I've been traveling since late July so I'm doing a very truncated #SealeyChallenge this year starting today w/ Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark. I've enjoyed Clark's work since her chap Equilibrium, so I'm glad this newest collection inspired me to pull her earlier work off my shelf for some re-reading
This picture shows the cover of the poetry collection Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark.
August 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Hoping to finish this by Tuesday
This picture shows the cover of the book The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg. It is rest on a striped beach blanket and in the background a river is flowing past.
July 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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It also inspired this found poem from my chap Self Portrait with Housewife
This picture is of a poem titled The Housewife Said, that reads “Drowning is almost always / deceptively quiet. // When I said, / drowning is almost always / deceptively quiet // (breathing must be fulfilled/ before speech occurs) // I meant, / I am waving for help, / moving towards a rescuer”
June 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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I'll be reading from Tumor Moon in Zürich with Derek JG Williams reading from and launching his new book Reading Water. Sunday 22 June at 7 pm at Pile of Books, Zentralstrasse 16 in Zürich.
This picture is of a black and white flyer advertising the book release reader of derek jg williams with Jennifer Saunders on 22 June at 7 pm at the bookstore Pile of Books, Zentralstrasse 16, Zürich. At the bottom half of the flyer is a black and white photo of a female mannequin hand emerging from a conch shell
June 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I'll be reading from my chapbook Tumor Moon on Saturday, June 7th at 8pm CET / 11 am Pacific. Also reading will be Chris Dahl, author of the poetry collection Not Now But Soon. The Zoom is free but registration is required - link to registration in the comments. I hope to see you there!
The text of this screenshot reads: "Praise For Tumor Moon. What can a mother do when her child is diagnosed with a rare tumor, or rather what can poetry do? Saunders' Tumor Moon shows us just that, through innovative forms and images that haunt and heal. She takes us deep into body and psyche, at once clinical and tender, 'I wanted that - / for someone to take a knife / to my son. Out with that dark moon / orbiting the future.' Her lyrical verse makes transparent the strugge of bearing diagnosis and treatment, the struggle of getting a story that refuses comprehension into language." - Julia Kolchinsky, author of The Many Names for Mother
June 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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I'll be reading at an online launch event for Tumor Moon together with Chris Dahl on Saturday June 7th 11 a.m. Pacific Time / 2 p.m. Eastern Time / 8 p.m. Central European Time. It's free but registration required - see link for registration. Hope to see you there!! concretewolf.com/events/Readi...
This photo is a flyer advertising an online book launch event. It reads "Online reading Saturday June 7, 11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern / 8 pm Central European Time. Poetry Book Release reading together with Chris Dahl, author of Not Now But Soon. Join us! The Zoom is free, but registration is required"
May 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Really enjoying this Icelandic classic, translated by J. A. Thompson.
This picture shows the cover of the novel Independent People by Halldór Laxness.
April 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Hi Chicago, even if I’m just dashing through O‘Hare between gates I do so love seeing you
This is a picture taken from an airplane window of the Chicago skyline with lake Michigan very clear and blue in the foreground This is a picture taken from an airplane window of the Chicago skyline with lake Michigan very clear and blue in the foreground. In this picture the wing of the plane is visible
April 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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This pork belly sandwich from Cochon Butcher is literally one of the best things I’ve ever eaten in my life 🤤 So simple, so divine.
This picture shows a pork belly sandwich on toasted white bread with a side of bread and butter pickles.
April 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Someone left this ARC in my hotel‘s lending library and I am devouring it!!
This picture shows the cover of an Advance Reader Copy of the book Dreaming of Home: A Young Latina‘s Journey to Pride, Power, and Belongs by Cristina Jiménez
April 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I'm in New Orleans! Reading Friday at the Open Mic, then enjoying all the New Orleans Poetry Festival has to offer on Saturday and Sunday. I hope to meet you!
This is a picture of a flyer. The background is the full moon rising above foregrounded trees. Along the left side it reads "New Orleans Poetry Festival" At the top it reads "Where I'll Be" Towards the bottom, below the full moon, it reads "Friday Apr 11 I'll be reading poems from Tumor Moon during the 1 - 3 Open Mic time slot at Siberia, 2227 Saint Claude Ave." At the very bottom of the flyer it reads "Photo by Steven Saunders Photography." all the fonts are in white against the dark background of the flyer.
April 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Perfection
This picture shows the cover of the novel Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta resting on a wooden bar top. A glass of beer with BUTCHER printed on it is next to the book
April 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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They’re here!
This picture shows a smiling white woman in a pink striped shirt holding up three copies of the book Tumor Moon This picture shows an open shipping box of the poetry collection Tumor Moon by Jennifer Saunders
March 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Starting tomorrow! Come say hi! #TumorMoon #AWP25
This flyer shows a full moon rising above dark trees in the foreground. Superimposed over the picture in white font is the text: "WHERE I'LL BE Thursday Mar 27 11am-12pm Say hi! Pacific University MFA Table T1238 Saturday Mar 29 11am-12pm Tumor Moon signing Whale Road Review Booth 948 Saturday Mar 29 2pm - 3pm Moon Path Press Authors Book Signing Booth 708" at the bottom of the picture is the photo credit "Photo by Steven Saunders Photography"
March 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Here's where I'll be at AWP Los Angeles next week. Come say hi! I'll be signing copies of Tumor Moon on Saturday.
This flyer shows a full moon rising above dark trees in the foreground. Superimposed over the picture in white font is the text: "WHERE I'LL BE Thursday Mar 27 11am-12pm Say hi! Pacific University MFA Table T1238 Saturday Mar 29 11am-12pm Tumor Moon signing Whale Road Review Booth 948 Saturday Mar 29 2pm - 3pm Moon Path Press Authors Book Signing Booth 708" at the bottom of the picture is the photo credit "Photo by Steven Saunders Photography"
March 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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For a long time I didn't write about my children or about my role as mother and care-giver. One of the poets who's been a guiding star showing me how to do this with both rigor and care has been Julia Kolchinsky. What an honor to have her say this about my collection Tumor Moon:
"What can a mother do when her child is diagnosed with a rare tumor, or rather what can poetry do? Saunders' Tumor Moon shows us just that, through innovative forms and images that haunt and heal. She takes us deep into body and psyche, at once clinical and tender. "I wanted that - / for someone to take a knife / to my son. Out with that dark moon / orbiting the future." Her lyrical verse makes transparent the struggle of bearing diagnosis and treatment, the struggle of getting a story that refuses comprehension into language." - Julia Kolchinsky, author of The Many Names for Mother
March 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Poets who know me know I've been a fan of Chelsea Dingman's poetry since her first collection, Thaw. So having these words of hers about Tumor Moon feels like a getting a lifetime achievement award. I'm so honored and grateful.
Praise for Tumor Moon Echo, recoil, return. The stunning poems in Jennifer Saunders' Tumor Moon gesture toward and from instances of "event free survival" and threat, exploring the shapes and contours of the un/endurable. In the terrible uncertainty surrounding the speaker's child's desmoid tumor diagnosis, Saunders deftly creates a standard of care through language that opens into the possibility for hope amid potential catastrophe. This collection is equal turns fierce and fragile, delivering a scorching encounter between permanence and impermanence, griefwork and gratitude. It is a book that I want to think alongside again and again. - Chelsea Dingman, author of I, Divided.
March 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Preorders are open for Tumor Moon. For Rare Diseases Day, for every preorder placed on February 28th I’ll make a donation to the The Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation. Tag me on your socials showing the Feb 28 preorder date or shoot me a message, and I’ll share the final total donated
This picture shows the cover of the poetry collection Tumor Moon by Jennifer Saunders. The full moon is rising in the night sky behind foregrounded trees. Several branches are silhouetted against the yellow-orange moon.
February 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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COVER REVEAL!!!!!
This picture shows the cover of Tumor Moon by Jennifer Saunders. It is a photograph of the full moon, orange and yellow, rising in the night sky from behind dark trees in the foreground. Some thin bare branches are silhouetted against the bright full moon. The title and author’s name are in the same yellow orange color as the light of the moon.
February 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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I saw this image of the artwork Between the Lines by Ariana Boussard-Reifel in a lecture on erasure by Robin Coste Lewis. What happens when you remove all the black from a book? It’s rendered useless. Food for thought.
This image shows a book open to two white pages from which every single word has been cut out, leaving noting but a series of precise holes. Next to the empty book is the pile of words. It is all set on a black background.
February 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Get ready for this, too.
The text captured by this screenshot reads as follows: “The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act has been reintroduced in the US House of Representatives. This legislation would require al Americans to rpoved their citizenship status by presenting documentation - in person - when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. Specifically, the legislation would require the vast majority of Americans to rely on a passport or birth certificate to prove their citizenship. While this may sound easy for many Americans, the reality is that more than 140 million American citizens do no possess a passport and as many as 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s name to not have a birth certificate matching their legal name.” The phrase "as 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s name to not have a birth certificate matching their legal name” is highlighted in yellow.
February 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Getting ready to discuss this with my book club this afternoon
This picture shows the cover of the paperback edition of Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
January 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM