The Program

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.

Taking inspiration from New York school poets such as Frank O'Hara, Jones employs an unadorned and at times funny narrative style that also calls to mind the work of Sheila Heti and Sally Rooney. Summoning images from the worlds of fashion, artand therapy, and exploring the allure of pain and of suffering,The Programis a compelling debut about how we are seen, and how we see ourselves. (FromGoose Lane Editions/icehouse poetry)

The Program is available on Sept. 27, 2022.

Megan Fennya Jones's poetry has appeared in publications across North America includingPoetry Northwest,Room MagazineandPRISM International, in the anthologyThe City Series Number One: Vancouver, and the chapbookNormal Women. She lives in Vancouver.