In this powerful, intimate collection, a young woman travels between Paris and New York to pursue a career in modelling. Alternating between the world of fashion, where “it’s no longer enough / that the sample size fits,” and the eponymous Program, a place to “discover / what’s underneath,” Jones’s debut collection pulls the reader deep into the realms of psychiatric care and romantic relationships and probes a long tradition of female suffering.
- Poetry
The Program
About the author
Megan Fennya Jones
Megan Fennya Jones’s poems have appeared in journals across North America including Poetry Northwest, Room, and PRISM international, the anthology The City Series Number One: Vancouver, and the chapbook Normal Women. Her poetry was shortlisted for the Minola Review Inaugural Poetry Contest in 2020. The Program is her debut full-length poetry collection. When she was a teenager, Jones worked briefly as a model in Paris and New York. Today, she works in independent publishing in Vancouver.
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