Jen Karetnick, a 2024 National Poetry Series finalist, is the author of 12 collections of poetry, including Inheritance with a High Error Rate (January 2024), the winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award. Forthcoming books include What Forges Us Steel: The Judge Judy Poems (Alternating Current Press, 2025) and Domiciliary (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2026). The co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has recent or forthcoming work in Atlanta Review, NELLE, Pleiades, Plume, Shenandoah, Sixth Finch, swamp pink, and elsewhere.

Other poems by Jen Karetnick in Verse Daily:
August 11, 2019:   "Internment" "Before the fistfuls of soil refill the hole, the names like bells peal..."
December 11, 2016:   "The President of People Fooling Themselves" "Forcing a bow tie on a bankrupt foundation..."
August 6, 2016:   "What My Autopsy Will Reveal" "The glass houses of organs were bottles..."

Other poems on the web by Jen Karetnick:
"Natural Selection"
Two poems
"Mango: An Inheritance with a High Error Rate"
"Post-Menopausal Love Poem That Begins with Guilt and Ends with Air Plants"
"Segments of an Orange"
Two poems
"Yeast"
"I Commiserate with the Pygmy Octopus Found in the Miami Beach Parking Garage"
"Under the Weather"
"Babka"
"Borromean Rings"
"127 Uses for Palm Trees"

Jen Karetnick's Website.

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Managing Editor, Poetry Editor & Webmaster: Samuel McFerron
Other poems by Jet Fuel Review in Verse Daily:
March 16, 2025:   "Grain" by Angie Macri
March 15, 2025:   "Devoured" by Wendy Wisner
"Natural Selection For The Lonely Individual"

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