Jennifer Militello is the author of the poetry collection The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021) and the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize (Dzanc Books, 2019), as well as four additional collections of poetry including A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments (Tupelo Press, 2016), called "positively bewitching" by Publishers Weekly, and Body Thesaurus (Tupelo Press, 2013), named one of the top books of 2013 by Best American Poetry. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, POETRY, and Tin House. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.

Other poems by Jennifer Militello in Verse Daily:
September 22, 2020:   "Love in the Post-God Age" "Summer has vanished...."
July 26, 2013:   "Afterburn" "Things too thin inhabit our dreams and we take on..."
November 5, 2008:   "World Hypothesis" "The geese again...."
April 19, 2005:  "Answering Fear as if It Were a Question" ""In a unit of time, in a violence of sleep..."
March 14, 2005:  "The Museum of Being Born" ""I remember now. Something was chasing..."

Books by Jennifer Militello:

Other poems on the web by Jennifer Militello:
"Mansplaining"
Seven poems
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
Five poems

Jennifer Militello's Website.

Jennifer Militello on Twitter.

About The Pact:

"What a beautiful book of songs, pacts, spells, love poems, chants, pledges, odes! Such lyric abandon here, and also such deep lyric knowledge. Knowledge of what? you might ask. Of how bodies can 'lengthen in rain' and how an hour might become 'a moth-eaten stain.' 'I keep my binoculars focused on / the past field,' this poet says, 'something might arrive / to coax the present field from its ghost.' This kind of coaxing is most welcome. It isn't the knowledge of past or foreknowledge. No. It is the lyric knowledge. To achieve it, one must go sideways, speak in tongues. 'I promise you fraud,' Militello tells us in one of her love poems. But then, if a reader is lucky enough to find a poet as talented as Jennifer Militello, one might as well use her own words, and, opening the book, say: 'I promise to let you / brainwash me.' Why? Because this is, indeed, a beautiful book."
—Ilya Kaminsky