Jen Karetnick, “Duck,” 2021 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize Finalist selected by Judge Clare MacQueen ”Duck” is a poetic narrative with its own kind of music, and with memorable language and imagery, the latter of which ...
My knuckle has been sliced open by a butter knife (long story) and now is held together by two dark stitches. Life is tough, isn’t it? And yet poetry is often like these two stitches, ...