Jennifer Franklin

Jennifer Franklin is the author of three poetry collections including If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, 2023). She is the recipient of a City Artist Corps/NYFA grant in poetry a CRCF grant in literature and teaches poetry workshops in Manhattanville’s MFA program and at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, where she is Program Director.

 

  • Two Poems

    You search for the best doctors, try to curb her pain—
  • Memento Mori: Northern White Rhinos

    They are grey, big as boulders,
  • ANTIGONE CONSIDERS HER FAMILY: Father and Mother

    He was always unhappy—
  • Polar Bear & Memento Mori: Stradivarius

    I am relieved. For twenty-seven years,