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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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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 22d

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 · 24d

Because with everything else going on billionaires still suck.

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · Sep 6

At a Chili’s in Amherst, AMA

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Aug 16

this summit could have been a text

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · Aug 15

Adam Zagajewski

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$ (Poetry Is Currency) @poetrycurrency.bsky.social · Jul 27

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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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 · Jun 12

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

Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · Jun 8

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 · May 29

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

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · May 13

"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

Margaret of Streeper Street — Susurrus

www.susurrusthemagazine.com

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · May 7

"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

Saint Martha at Christmas — Susurrus

www.susurrusthemagazine.com

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · May 5

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 · May 5

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 · May 4

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 · Apr 23

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

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

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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 · Apr 10

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Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · Apr 10

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 · Mar 14

@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 · Feb 14

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 · Feb 12

Pretty much

Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · Feb 12

[Sylvia Plath tries to tell a joke]

A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walked into a bar.

And I ate them like air.

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · Feb 12

[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—

Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · Feb 11

[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

Jennifer A Sutherland @jasutherland.bsky.social · Feb 11

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