Author: jenniferdavismichael

My new chapbook, Dubious Breath, will be available in July. Pre-order here! https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/dubious-breath-by-jennifer-davis-michael/

This brand-new collection, edited by Beth Houston and published by Rhizome Press, includes a sonnet of mine, “Infinite Fable.” You can order it here.

This weekend I’ll be reading at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference in Derry, NH. Looking forward to meeting other poets there! (I’ll have some books for sale too.)

http://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/conference-overview

During Holy Week, I read a new poem as part of this service at my former parish, St. Luke’s in Evanston. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Wd4PTsTd0&ab_channel=St.Luke%27sEpiscopalChurch%2CEvanston

The bulletin is here: https://files.constantcontact.com/c02d9bb7001/5a9ef2aa-7d31-416e-a04b-f1b475facf7b.pdf

For the month of February, I was privileged to take part in a workshop on epistolary poetry with Pauletta Hansel and 15 other wonderful women. There will be a group reading on March 4 at 7 pm ET / 6pm CT. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkc-CvqzguEtUqnBq7p4g83xQWr7QNnJx8

I’m honored to be on the shortlist for the https://www.betterthanstarbucks.org/sonnet-contest.

I’m honored to be on the longlist for Palette’s Sappho Prize. Congratulations to the winners!

https://www.palettepoetry.com/2020/09/16/the-winners-and-finalists-of-the-2020-sappho-prize/

Learning to Feel the Sea

I’m honored to have my poem “Forty Trochees” chosen by Rachel Hadas for the Frost Farm Prize in Metrical Poetry.

Details here!