Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere
Read: “Alcestis as the Dead Woman’s Auto-Roman à Clef” and “Alcestis as Peripheral | Swift | Ominous Movement in the House” in Arcturus Magazine
Purchase: House of Myth and Necessity (River River Books, 2026)
Jennifer A Sutherland is a poet, essayist, and attorney in Baltimore. She is the author of House of Myth and Necessity (River Riverbooks, 2026) and the lyric-hybrid, book-length poem Bullet Points, also from River River Books (2023). Her work has appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Cagibi, EPOCH, and elsewhere.
Recommended Reading
Anne Carson
Claire Millikin’s TELEVISION (Unicorn Books, 2016)
Monica Youn’s Blackacre
Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House
Tron (film, 1982)
Diane Seuss’s essay “Restless Herd: Some Thoughts on Order—in Poetry, in Life” (Poets & Writers, on building a bearable myth)
Of Poetry Podcast 