About
JENNIFER A SUTHERLAND is a poet, essayist, attorney and educator from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a graduate of Hollins University (M.F.A.), where she was a teaching fellow; the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law (J.D.), where she served as Notes and Comments Editor for the CUA Law Review; and Stevenson University (B.S.). She is an alumna of workshops at Bread Loaf, Tin House, and Kenyon Review. Her creative work has appeared or will appear in Birmingham Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Hopkins Review, Denver Quarterly, I-70 Review and elsewhere. Her debut, Bullet Points: A Lyric, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur and Foreword Indies Poetry Book of the Year.
Featured Work
Bullet Points: A Lyric
Part prose poem, part lyric essay, Bullet Points considers an American courthouse shooting, its aftermath, and its echoes in law, history and capitalism. Tracing a woman trial lawyer’s experiences of violence—from the intimate and domestic to the national—attorney and poet Jennifer A Sutherland brings a deeply perceptive tenderness to the reality of historical abuses grounded in law and capitalism. Drawing on acts of language and power, art and trauma, Bullet Points raises questions about the systems and structures that enable violence via a poetry brilliantly awake to the fact that:
“Language is one way of doing business across time and into spaces. Image is another.”
