The Captain’s Table
Effacement 4, “The Captain’s Table.” Materials: Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, Women’s Day 1952, menu from monthly meal plan, ocean chart.
Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of four poetry collections: Foxlogic, Fireweed (Backwaters Press/Univ. of Nebraska), Little Spells, How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, and Salt Memory. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared widely in journals, including American Poetry Review, The Awl, New American Writing, Terrain, Tupelo Quarterly, and Verse Daily.