"Coffle" by Jenn Blair : Flock Literary Journal

According to the Eleventh Edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, a coffle is "a train of slaves or animals fastened together." The coffle about which American poet Jenn Blair has written in first person in her narrative poem "Coffle" is a train of slaves fastened together (as if the slaves were animals). That poem is in an issue of Flock Literary Journal.

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"Sumter" by Jenn Blair | Rattle: Poetry

Winner of Prize Americana, the collection of poems Malcontent (Press Americana, 2017) by American poet Jenn Blair takes the reader on a journey through American history that is at once fresh, startling and epic in its sweep. To read Jenn Blair's poem "Sumter," one of the poems in Malcontent, click here.

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