House of Myth and Necessity, coming to River River Books in early 2026
Praise for House of Myth and Necessity
Sutherland creates a geometry of her own . . . Witty, wide-ranging – Moira Egan, author of The Furies, Synaesthesium, Amore e morte
Wildly inventive . . . brave and complex, yet also fun; I guarantee you will want to read it again and again – Lynn Melnick, author of Refusenik, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive
Sutherland’s poems know . . . hard truth, just as they know how easily an “opened bone becomes a window.” But they also speak to the beauty of survival, which is everywhere evident in Sutherland’s lyrical precision and skillful use of language. This is a brave, powerful, and necessary collection – Amanda Newell, author of Postmortem Say
This collection is challenging, intelligent, and unlike anything I’ve read lately. Brava – Donna Vorreyer, author of Unrivered, To Everything There Is, Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story
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Praise for Bullet Points: A Lyric
“Bullet Points reminds me of Penelope, weaving and unraveling in order to keep at bay what society has decided to accept, but which she has not. The poem contains a structure, created by a poet whose mind ranges over a vast array of subjects which thread together to tell a coherent story with coherent criticisms, while also leaving space for the reader’s own connections, imaginings, and outrages.” J.D. Ho, Fugue Journal
“I’m so drawn to Bullet Points, to its thorny, stark truths about how we bring forth the stories buried inside, whose expulsion from our bodies are both a relief and an edict.” Leslie Gray Streeter, The Baltimore Banner
“This compelling and challenging work, existing somewhere in the liminal ground of extended prose poem and fragmented lyric essay, invents a form to capture the experience of trauma.” Anne Myles, North American Review
“The lyricism shines when it comes to feeling and attempting to hold the aftershock of the events she has gone through.”
Willow James Claire, ANMLY
“…an intricately woven tapestry, slowly unraveled…” Sara Stoudt, Psaltery & Lyre
Jennifer A Sutherland 