Jen Karetnick
Jen Karetnick is the author of eleven poetry collections, including Inheritance with a High Error Rate (Cider Press Review, 2024), winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award. Her work has won the Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, the Hart Crane Memorial Prize, and the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among others, and received support from the Vermont Studio Center, Roundhouse Foundation, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, and elsewhere. She is cofounder/managing editor of SWWIM Every Day.
Reading List
The Limitations of Batesian Mimicry; Or, a Divine Flow for Habitat Loss
Adaptable squatters, they roost in lairs dug by ground squirrels and prairie dogs. Or in humanity’s exposed pipes and bunkers. Practical as plaid, burrowing owls will whisk away the soil on their own only if loose enough. Shmita asks for a sabbatical of the land. That we leave what grows naturally for the wildlife […]