Clocks will still mark time. Only speechesby the president under siege will sound true. Bombedcities that refuse to fall will be decimated. Spring will stallas if waiting for war to end before it can arrive.Monuments will stand, protected by sandbags,as children cry....
Jennifer is the author of three full-length collections including If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, March 2023) and No Small Gift (Four Way Books, 2018). Franklin is the recipient of a 2021 NYFA/City Artist Corps grant for poetry and a 2021 CRCF Literature Award. Her work has been published in American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Beloit, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Gettysburg Review, JAMA, The Nation, New England Review, the Paris Review, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Society’s Poetry in Motion, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, and Valparaiso Review, among other places. She teaches in Manhattanville's MFA program and the Hudson Valley Writers Center, where serves as Program Director. She lives in New York City.