Dinner with Jack By Megan Fernandes (Grades 10+)

"Dinner with Jack" comes from Megan Fernandes' poetry compilation I Do Everything I'm Told, published by Tin House in 2023. It is funny, dark and smart, and according to the publisher, "explores disobedience and worship, longing and possessiveness, and nights of wandering cities".

Fernandes was born in Canada and grew up in the United States. She now lives in New York City. This poem is a good example of Fernandes’ dark irreverence, focused as it is on the underbelly of love, and where it fails.