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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

On Reel Poetik: two great films that go great with a poem by Gary Fincke. Look me up on Substack.

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Oceanic day after literary festival feeling

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Grateful for the chance to redeem myself! Thank you for laughing with me at some bad ones!

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I love the meander and the mystery of this poem, and I love, love House of Myth and Necessity by @jasutherland.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social, 2026) where it is one among many wonders. #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

House of Myth and Necessity cover: shiny surface. Cover art is an oil painting by Jean-François Pierre Peyron titled Alceste mourante (1785) in tones ranging from bright white to deep, muted red, across browns, beiges and grays. It depicts Alcestis on her side, dead, on a bed, draped in nightshift and sheets. The king bowing at her shoulder, her kids holding on to her from the bedside, and two female figures dressed in gray, faces turned away, one arranging a blanket, the other supporting a child. The cover fills the page and is surrounded, framelike by the lettering of the title and author

Alcestis as a Throat Become a Well

Who
speaks
for me
when I cannot
will I be gently
soothed until
the chilly hands
drop their
fluttering
at the breast
the head
once more
conjoined to body
and air
restored
to lung
and who
will dispel
what choked
me to wherever such
things go the stony
vault
for all ejected
reliquiae

they
ask me what
has happened
and I cannot say
that between my
brain and belly
now there is
a well sunk
by the man
I followed
to the
riverbed
who made me kneel
before
his slick
and stony
vault
until my throat
was sore and
my hands were
limp from
grappling and
my husband
cannot
fathom my
stillness
now or
my refusal

to explain
that the woman
split
in half and fused
again is satisfied
with what her brain
and belly say
to one another
that the well its passage
cleared
swallows all its water

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Happy WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH from River River Books! 🎉🎉🎉 Check out these beautiful poetry and nonfiction titles today! 📚💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/

Book graphic featuring 12 titles by women-identifying authors at RRB

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Thank you for buying up this little book, ya’ll, I love you back

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Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A great evening of poetry and flash with Karen Leona Anderson, @jasutherland.bsky.social, @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social, Raymond Cummings and Thom Hawkins. Thanks so much to @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social for arranging and hosting, and letting me read my silly poems!

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

River River Books authors at the co-reading with Blair last night! Many thanks to @stevenleyva.bsky.social and University of Baltimore for hosting us!

Elizabeth Sylvia, Preeti Vangani, J.D. Ho, Zoe Ryder White, Beth Gilstrap, Jameela F. Dallis, standing in a row and laughing/smiling together

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Jennifer A Sutherland is signing at our table! 756! Get your copy of HOUSE OF MYTH AND NECESSITY 📚💙🎉 @jasutherland.bsky.social

Jennifer Sutherland signing at the River River table

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Hey friends—join us in Baltimore for some fire, anti-fascist love poems! Saturday night, 7pm.

Anti-Fascist Love Poem
JENNIFER A SUTHERLAND
CATHERINE ROCKWOOD
ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE
Reading
MICHAEL TODD COHEN
CARLA SOFIA FERREIRA
DOMINIQUE AHKONG
HAN VANDERHART
JOHNNY CORDOVA
ELIZABETH SYLVIA
RITA MOOKERJEE
AMORAK HUEY
ERIN VACHON
K. IVER
Off Site
Baltimore
Saturday, March 7|79pm
Fells Point 1640 Thames Street
(use entrance to: 1636)

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Friends, this AWP gathering is so special, ya gotta RSVP. Go to this link. Come out and sing with us March 6, 4-7, the Ash Bar at the Hotel Ulysses. resy.com/cities/balti...

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Yesterday a colleague with knowledge of my history called me a “psychopath” because I sent around an email saying I wasn’t available for a call. I’m kind of the opposite of a psychopath. I feel like that’s the thing that pisses me off the most, the fucking inaccuracy.

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Happy pub day to House of Myth and Necessity and this amazing catalogue of books!

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Where to find me at AWP (when I’m not hiding in the quiet room)

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Love poetry and nonfiction? Want to meet some of our incredible authors? AWP author signing schedule below! 📚💙 Visit us in Baltimore at T756! 🎉🎉🎉 riverriverbooks.org/store/

RIVER RIVER BOOKS AUTHOR
SIGNINGS - T756

Featuring nine book signers! Beth Gilstrap, JD Ho, Zoë Ryder White, Elizabeth Sylvia, Preeti Vangani, Jennifer A Sutherland, Jameela, F. Dallas, Carla Sofia Ferreira, and a friend of the press, Burgi Zenhaeusern

RIVER RIVER BOOKS
AUTHOR SIGNINGS - T756
Thursday
11-12pm, Elizabeth Sylvia
2-3pm, Carla Sofia Ferreira
3-4pm, Burgi Zenhaeusern
3-4pm, Zoë Ryder White
Friday
11-12pm, Beth Gilstrap
12-1pm, ).D. Ho
1-2pm, Preeti Vangani
2-3pm, Jennifer A Sutherland
Saturday
10-11am, Jameela F. Dallis
RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

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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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

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...

Book cover of House of Myth and Necessity featuring an oil painting of Alcestis and her family with a word frame of the title and author’s name

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

River River author @jasutherland.bsky.social has two new poems in Issue #11 of Biscuit Hill! Read both here: www.thebiscuithill.com/issue11

from "Winter Math"

On winter days
my ankle is a lake of snow, blue, deep, cold and ravenous, a school of tiny fish that rise now and then to sip the air but never take the line for fear it's baited.

Jennifer A Sutherland
in Issue ll oi Biscuit Hill

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

Documentary art of every kind, including poetry, is necessary. Someone needs to record what's happening.

Jennifer A Sutherland reviews
Erin Murphey's Human Resources in Plume

Jennifer A Sutherland in the most beautiful embroidered sweater and scarf and wintry air, hair down, lifted gaze to side

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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Because with everything else going on billionaires still suck.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 16/08/2025

this summit could have been a text

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$ (Poetry Is Currency) @poetrycurrency.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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...

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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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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Back to say that immediately after I posted this I got three rejections in a row. Lol

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Sorry, I just need to pop in and say writing is keeping me alive again. Grateful for that. Hang in there, all of you.

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Haven’t been here much because there was rarely much going on. Has that changed?

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"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

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Margaret of Streeper Street — Susurrus

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"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

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Saint Martha at Christmas — Susurrus

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

April was truly the cruelest shittiest month, and most of it didn’t even involve me practicing law.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 05/05/2025

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!

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Poem for a rainy day spent housecleaning, literally and figuratively. Thanks @susurrusmag.bsky.social for letting me share. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/saint-martha...

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This is happening tomorrow night! I would love to see you!

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

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...

A Reading for the End of the World
Tues 4/22 7-10pm free
Shadowbox
Durham
20 poets read into our shared apocalypse
Brian Howe
Bridget Bell
Chris Tonelli
Chris Vitiello
CJ Martin:
Dasan Ahanu
Destiny Hemphill
Dylan Angelli
Fred Joiner
Han VanderHart
Joanna Penn Cooper
Joe Fletcher
Laura Jaramillo
Lauren Hunter
Marta Nunez Pouzols
Michael Cavuto
Michelle Dove
Sarah Rose Nordgren
Susannah Simpson
Tessa Bolsover

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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.

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

@schumer.senate.gov you are of no use to the decent people of this country. Retire.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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.

Spring 2026
House of Myth and Necessity by Jennifer A Sutherland

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

[Sylvia Plath tries to tell a joke] A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walked into a bar. And I ate them like air.

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hey hi hello, I have just been on the phone and I have new book news coming soon 🪽

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Six months ago I said they were gonna come for Marbury v Madison and damn if they aren’t coming for Marbury v Madison.

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