Jennifer A Sutherland

@jasutherland.bsky.social ❤️📚🎉

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 proud of editor @amorak.bsky.social and the forthcoming publication of MOUTH, which you can preorder via the link below 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations, Amorak!

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

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...

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

River River author @jasutherland.bsky.social has two new poems in Issue #11 of Biscuit Hill!

Read both here: www.thebiscuithill.com/issue11

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

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

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

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!

Write poems. Read poems.

Because with everything else going on billionaires still suck.

At a Chili’s in Amherst, AMA

this summit could have been a text

Adam Zagajewski

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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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.

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.

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

Margaret of Streeper Street — Susurrus

"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

Saint Martha at Christmas — Susurrus

"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

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

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...

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

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

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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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.

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

Spring 2026 House of Myth and Necessity by Jennifer A Sutherland

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.

Pretty much

[Sylvia Plath tries to tell a joke]

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

And I ate them like air.