B. Fulton Jennes is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, including CALYX, Comstock Review, Rust and Moth, SWWIM, and Tupelo Quarterly. In 2022, her poem "Glyphs of a Gentle Going" was awarded the Lascaux Prize; another poem, "Father to Son," won the 2023 New Millennium Award. Jennes' collection Blinded Birds received the 2022 International Book Award for a poetry chapbook. FLOWN—an elegy-in-verse to her late sister—was published by Porkbelly Press in 2024. Jennes is poet laureate emerita of Ridgefield, CT, where she directs the Poetry in the Garden festival each summer and curates the "Poems from Connecticut's Four Corners" monthly series online.

Other poems on the web by B. Fulton Jennes:
"This Is How I Want to Die"
"My Father's Land"
"Father to Son"
"Black Bread"
"Wake Up on Wednesday, Sober"
"Every Bad Thing That Ever Happened To Me Happened When I Was Drunk"
"The First Complete Dissection of the Human Cerebrospinal Nervous System, Or: Did Harriet Cole Foresee That Death Would Not End the Ways the World Would Ravish the Temple of Her?"
"Eating Dinner, After You Died"
"From the Room of an Unknown Girl"
"Accumulation"

B. Fulton Jennes's Website.

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