Jennifer Atkinson
Jennifer Atkinsonis the author of four collections of poetry. The fourth and most recent book, Canticle of the Night Path, which won Free Verse’s New Measure Prize, came out in the winter of 2012. Individual poems have appeared in various journals including Field, Image, Witness, New American Writing, Terrain, Poecology,Cincinnati Review, The Missouri Review, and, ofcourse, Shenandoah. She teaches in the poetry MFA and BFA programs at George Mason University in Virginia.
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In the Hands of the Builder
A ship wrecked off Hatteras, racked, Swamped, foundered, and pounded under The waves to flotsam, winds up as silver Rubble on Greenland’s graveled shore. Half the keel, once half an oak Felled and dragged downriver from Portland To the Essex, …