Jill McDonough's first book gives us fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution. Headed meticulously with name, date, place, they are poignant with the factual, with eyewitness reports and the words of the condemned - so limpidly framed that one forgets the skill that crystallizes all this into authentic poetry.
Jill McDonough's first book gives us fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution. Headed meticulously with name, date, place, they are poignant with the factual, with eyewitness reports and the words of the condemned - so limpidly framed that one forgets the skill that crystallizes all this into authentic poetry.
Pushcart prize winner Jill McDonough's first book of poems, Habeas Corpus, was published by Salt in 2008. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford's Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work appears in Slate, The Nation , The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry 2011. She teaches poetry at the University of Massachusetts Boston and directs 24PearlStreet, the online writing program at the Fine Arts Work Center.
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Acknowledgements Early 1608: George Kendall October 22, 1659: Mary Dyer June 1, 1660: Mary Dyer July 19, 1692: Susanna Martin June 4, 1715: Margaret Gaulacher July 12, 1726: William Fly February 25, 1755: Tom, a Negro September 18, 1755: Mark and Phillis October 21, 1773: Levi Ames April 11, 1778: Aaaran October 8, 1789: Rachel Wall July 8, 1797: Abraham Johnstone July 9, 1819: Rose Butler April 25, 1822: Samuel Green April 22, 1831: Charles Gibbs November 11, 1831: Nat Turner January 31, 1850: Reuben Dunbar August 30, 1850: Professor John W. Webster December 2, 1859: John Brown December 26, 1862: Chaska June 19, 1863: Private William Grover April 22, 1864: Corporal William B. Jones July 7, 1865: Mary Eugenia Surratt November 10, 1865: Major Henry Wirz December 12, 1884: George Cooke August 6, 1890: William Kemmler June 28, 1895: Michael McDonough October 29, 1901: Leon Czolgosz June 9, 1916: Juan Sanchez February 8, 1924: Gee Jon August 23, 1927: Nicola Sacco August 23, 1927: Bartolomeo Vanzetti August 14, 1936: Rainey Bethea January 31, 1945: Private Eddie D. Slovik May 3, 1946: Willie Francis May 9, 1947: Willie Francis June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg May 2, 1960: Caryl Chessman April 14, 1965: Perry Smith January 17, 1977: Gary Gilmore December 7, 1982: Charles Brooks April 16, 1986: Daniel Morris Thomas May 21, 1997: Bruce Edwin Callins June 22, 2000: Gary Graham, later known as Shaka Sankofa August 9, 2000: Brian Roberson August 9, 2000: Oliver Cruz June 11, 2001: Timothy McVeigh October 9, 2002: Aileen Wuornos September 3, 2003: Paul Hill May 13, 2005: Michael Ross Notes
Acknowledgements Early 1608: George Kendall October 22, 1659: Mary Dyer June 1, 1660: Mary Dyer July 19, 1692: Susanna Martin June 4, 1715: Margaret Gaulacher July 12, 1726: William Fly February 25, 1755: Tom, a Negro September 18, 1755: Mark and Phillis October 21, 1773: Levi Ames April 11, 1778: Aaaran October 8, 1789: Rachel Wall July 8, 1797: Abraham Johnstone July 9, 1819: Rose Butler April 25, 1822: Samuel Green April 22, 1831: Charles Gibbs November 11, 1831: Nat Turner January 31, 1850: Reuben Dunbar August 30, 1850: Professor John W. Webster December 2, 1859: John Brown December 26, 1862: Chaska June 19, 1863: Private William Grover April 22, 1864: Corporal William B. Jones July 7, 1865: Mary Eugenia Surratt November 10, 1865: Major Henry Wirz December 12, 1884: George Cooke August 6, 1890: William Kemmler June 28, 1895: Michael McDonough October 29, 1901: Leon Czolgosz June 9, 1916: Juan Sanchez February 8, 1924: Gee Jon August 23, 1927: Nicola Sacco August 23, 1927: Bartolomeo Vanzetti August 14, 1936: Rainey Bethea January 31, 1945: Private Eddie D. Slovik May 3, 1946: Willie Francis May 9, 1947: Willie Francis June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg May 2, 1960: Caryl Chessman April 14, 1965: Perry Smith January 17, 1977: Gary Gilmore December 7, 1982: Charles Brooks April 16, 1986: Daniel Morris Thomas May 21, 1997: Bruce Edwin Callins June 22, 2000: Gary Graham, later known as Shaka Sankofa August 9, 2000: Brian Roberson August 9, 2000: Oliver Cruz June 11, 2001: Timothy McVeigh October 9, 2002: Aileen Wuornos September 3, 2003: Paul Hill May 13, 2005: Michael Ross Notes
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