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Jennifer A Sutherland

@jasutherland.bsky.social
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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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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 · 08/03/2026
Thank you for buying up this little book, ya’ll, I love you back
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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 · 22/02/2026
Where to find me at AWP (when I’m not hiding in the quiet room)
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Write poems. Read poems.
Poetry at Palisades Reading Series
October 12, 2025
Featured Readers Steven Leyva and Michael Tager

212 Washington Avenue
Fifth Floor
Baltimore, MD 21204

Email PoetryatPalisades(at)gmail.com for more info. Bring a poem to share!
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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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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
At a Chili’s in Amherst, AMA
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Adam Zagajewski
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Baltimore friends. I am working on a new poetical project about the 80s music scene (and class, of course, this is me) in Baltimore. To that end I am looking for photos of people in places like Gerards, Marble Bar, Hammerjacks, Steeltown, Club Charles, Seagull Inn. Some of these would hopefully be used, with credit and permission, in the final project. Would you be willing to share? Please feel free to share this post with friends.
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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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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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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 · 06/02/2025
Boris Dralyuk
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
WBW: this 2020 Patricia Spears Jones poem dedicated to moi and Jeanne Larsen
Block poem that reads: First night in Virginia, we stop at a CVS, late, the store is vast & sorry The lone clerk slow wipes a counter. She slumps, sags all that worry in her spills onto the counter's hard plastic top. I gather items & wait for her suddenly cheerful acknowledgement. It seems as if fate has made this place a symbol of American want— everything in this place seems cheap except the products for sale. The lighting, the railings, that Counter. This is replicated in Walmart, Walgreens, only the Dollar Store Does not pretend to be anything other than a repository of things you need and things you don't. The clerks are not well paid & at night left to fend for themselves in this plastic vastness. On my last visit, the clerk
stands behind a cheap plastic protector. More symbol, than reality. She wears her mask and behind it smiles— she has a job & that's good,
But, this is yet another display & she's expendable. We all are.
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Philip Levine
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A little bit of Jorie Graham (from Time Frame, in To 2040)
one of us would say. We were allowed to speak then. It was permitted. One of us might dream. One of us might despair. But we cleaned up the debris together & the next day the sun came & we were able to sit in it as long as our hearts desired.
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Congratulations to Dani, Abigail and SG, I can’t wait to read these books! And congrats to my Alcestis, a finalist. Like a good demigoddess she is awaiting the right time and place to make her entrance
Green text block that reads “Sundress Publications 2024 Open Reading Period Poetry Winners”List of finalists for Sundress Pubs 2024 Open Reading Period
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Sums on a postcard found in a 1904 Baedeker
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Didn’t choose the thug life
Skinny girl in suspenders and eighties hair holds a trumpet to her lips
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Todd Dillard
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Ban pastors from Ohio bathrooms
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Ms Moira Egan
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Is it just me or are these some of the ugliest, poorest fitting dresses of all time The one on the left looks like it has a Thomas Kinkade painting of a GONDOLA on it
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
About to get all in between genres at Youngstown Literary Festival
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
He looks just like my racist uncle Anthony right after 15 or so Yuenglings and a plate of my aunt’s kielbasa and kraut, which is to say every day
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
I not only conquered my fear of my 17th floor balcony, I planted things
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
Do wealthy people think they own our eyes too?
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
An independent judiciary does not seek to undermine democratic elections and yet here we are
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Starts today! See you Saturday at 10:00 at The Omni in Charlottesville
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
Meanwhile at the Elkridge Club
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
See you at AWP next week!
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Taking a mental health day so I can really focus on it
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Come find me Saturday morning at River River Books and get yourself a sticker and I’ll give you a little tarot reading if you buy my book or even if you don’t, just come find me
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Moira Egan and I ate snacks and wore glasses
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Ishion Hutchinson (from House of Lords and Commons) wandering in Baltimore
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Did someone hack her website or is this for real
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
This is a book to be excited about, preorders at riverriverbooks.org/store/Preord...
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Self portrait as Christmas bat
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
The arc of justice is long so Bath & Body Works embeds mandatory arbitration agreements into your candle orders
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Inside a wreath, the words: My unyielding melancholy brings all the existentialists to the yard.
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
someone just walked into my office and asked why I’m sitting here crying and no, it’s not the morning’s appellate opinions
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Anne Myles gorgeously
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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Which one of you killed Rejection Wiki
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