Interviews & Press

On If Some God Shakes Your House:

Read Jessica Jacob’s interview with Jennifer Franklin about If Some God Shakes Your House for the Poetry Society of America here.

Read Tyler Mills’s interview with Jennifer Franklin about If Some God Shakes Your House for On the Seawall here.

Read Jennifer Franklin’s piece on If Some God Shakes Your House and writing a contemporary Antigone in Adroit here.

Read “As Antigone” in Lit Hub here.

Read Esther Lin’s review of If Some God Shakes Your House in Poetry Northwest here.

Read Anastasios Mihalopoulos’s review of If Some God Shakes Your House in Barrelhouse here.

Read Jennifer Martelli’s review of If Some God Shakes Your House in MER here.

Read Tiffany Troy’s review of If Some God Shakes Your House in Hong Kong Review of Books here.

Read Maria Surrichio’s review of If Some God Shakes Your House in the Fall 2022 print issue of Prairie Schooner here.

Read Lynn McGee’s review of If Some God Shakes Your House in the Fall 2023 print issue of Valley Voices.

Read Veronica Golos’s review of If Some God Shakes Your House in the Fall 2023 issue of Tupelo Quarterly Review here.

Read Aline Soules’s review of If Some God Shakes Your House in The Compulsive Reader here.

Read the micro-review of If Some God Shakes Your House in the piece on new books by New England Review Authors here.

Watch Jennifer Franklin read with Diane Seuss for Poetry Flash from July 16, 2023 here.

No Small Gift:

Read Rebecca Doverspike’s review of No Small Gift in Tupelo Quarterly here.

No Small Gift makes the best poetry for fall 2018 from The Washington Independent Review of Books

Read Valerie Duff-Strautmann’s review of No Small Gift in the Winter issue of Salamander here.

Read Rebecca Foust’s review of No Small Gift in Women’s Voices for Change here.

Read Amy Strauss Friedman’s review of No Small Gift in Kenyon Review here.

Read Beth Kanell’s review of No Small Gift.

Looming:

Poet & Editor Laura Madeline Wiseman interviews Jennifer Franklin about Persephone's Ransom

Persephone's Ransom chosen by Andrew Solomon as one of his "favorite books about family love:"

 Selected Poems

“Preparing for Residential Placement for My Disabled Daughter” chosen by Diane Seuss for the Academy of American Poets poem- a-day series

“Lucia Anna & Anna Livia—Both Named by James Joyce” & “Parable” Spring Issue of Blackbird

“As Antigone” as daily poem on Vox Populi, first published in The Bennington Review

“As Antigone,” a new poem on Lit Hub

“Memento Mori: Shelter Dog” on Verse Daily, originally publsihed by Beloit Poetry Journal

“June 24, 2022," “Parable of the Painter,” Nothing can Cure Her” published in Peste

“Antigone’s Hubris” and “Antigone’s Decision” published in Bennington Review

“Memento Mori: Greek Gold Exhibit,” “June,” “Memento Mori: Annunciation, without Angel,” and “Memento Mori: Lost Children of Tuam” published in Blackbird

“Memento Mori: Moth” and “Memento Mori: Winter” published in The Cortland Review

“Memento Mori, Aleppo” published in JAMA

“Antigone Visits the Psychiatric Hospital,” published in The Night Heron Barks & nominated for a Pushcart Prize

“Memento Mori: Ranunculus” and “February [“This has always been the month of death, I tell the dog…”]” On the Seawall

“Antigone Buries the Body” and “Antigone’s Desire” published in Pigeon Pages:

“Antigone Considers Her Father,” “Antigone Considers Her Mother,” “Memento Mori: Central Park Polar Bear,” and “Memento Mori: Stradivarius” published in Plume

“Memento Mori: Pistachios” published in Poetry Society of America’s Poetry in Motion

Memento Mori: Apple Orchard” Valparisio Poetry Review & Tree Lines Anthology

“Wind Phone” published in Sixth Finch

“Memento Mori: Pistachios” and “Biopsy Pantoum” published in American Poetry Review

“Memento Mori: Vertigo” and “Memento Mori: Muleteer of Pompeii” published in Barrow Street