Jane Satterfield has published five poetry books, including The Badass Brontës, a winner of the Diode Editions Poetry Prize, Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House Poetry Prize), Her Familiars, and Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir Press Poetry Award). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship, the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry from Bellingham Review, the Ledbury Poetry Festival Prize, and more. Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond (Demeter Press, 2009) features selections that received Florida Review's Editors' Prize, the Faulkner Society/Pirate's Alley Essay Award, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. New poetry and prose appear in About Place, The Common, Ecotone, Interim, Literary Matters, The Missouri Review, Orion, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. A professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland, Satterfield has served on the faculty of the West Chester Poetry Conference and as the 2019 Salisbury, Maryland Poet-in-Residence. She is married to poet Ned Balbo and lives in Baltimore.

Other poems by Jane Satterfield in Verse Daily:
February 24, 2017:   "Souvenir" "Friendly fire, parasites &..."
February 2, 2013:   "Stuck at the Beginning" "The beginning of a traffic circle..."
November 12, 2003:  "Double Exposure" by Jane Satterfield   "This maddening thought—lips might meet...."
November 17, 2002:  Improvisation "Ice on the limbs / of the isolate trees..."

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Other poems on the web by Jane Satterfield:
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"Epistle with Luggage and Large Bouquet"
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"Costumery: Cento with Lines from Early Reviews of Wuthering Heights"
Six poems
"The Zombie Skateboarder at the Bus Stop"
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"Volumes"
Three poems
"Deer in Winter"
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Four poems

Jane Satterfield's Website.

About The Badass Brontës:

"Jane Satterfield's beautiful new collection The Badass Brontës reimagines the world of the Brontë sisters. With a range of forms including ekphrasis, letters, a cento, a sestina and even a quiz—'Which Brontë sister are you?'—Satterfield's poems are both daring and inventive. The poems investigate the Brontës' vivid world of imagination and envision the sisters' lives in our present moment, during the pandemic lockdown and the climate crisis. I love The Badass Brontës for its lyric grace but also for its boldness and wit. As Satterfield writes in the poem 'Volumes,' 'A book's an invitation, / excoriation, sustenance, pilgrimage…' and this exhilarating book is all of this and more."
—Nicole Cooley

"Jane Satterfield's The Badass Brontës is a work of superbly achieved research, imagination, and lyricism. In poems that traverse subjects that connect the centuries and collapse time, this book-length sequence vividly recreates a world of linkages between the Brontës' lives and novels and our own present-day realities—from Covid and quarantine, to species extinction, gendered oppression, the diminishment of women's literary voices, and the legacies of colonialism, slavery, and the Industrial Revolution. Brimming with historically precise detail and lush descriptions of the physical landscape (as well as the domestic spaces and psychic interiors the Brontës inhabited), the poems are also about sisterhood itself, examining the complex relationship between the Brontës and that between the poet and her literary foremothers. In poems addressed to the sisters and persona poems in various voices, in verse inflected by an array of formal measures, Satterfield powerfully casts a spell that 'summons the spectral,' bringing these three famous and famously misunderstood 'weird sisters' out of the past to walk in the present."
—Shara McCallum

"'Would you / say the here & now is a horizon / to eternity?' asks the poet of Emily Brontë in the proem that introduces Jane Satterfield's remarkable new collection. With consummate empathy, the poems of The Badass Brontës seek nothing less than to interfuse historical, personal, and artistic horizons, and do so with such formal and tonal vibrancy they accomplish something close to a co-presence of the Brontës' haunting and haunted world and our own fraught and frangible one. In Satterfield's work, the voices of these figures emerge as from a proverbial mind-meld with the poet's, such that every detail feels conjured alive, awake, so each becomes, like all of us, 'one bright strand / in the story of time & / vanishing.'"
—Daniel Tobin