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Oscar Martens asked me a plethora of fun questions and posted them on his blog which you can read here:

https://www.oscarmartens.com/jennifer-zilm-for-all-your-bibliomancy-needs/

Here is is a reading of “Titles: The Year in Books” from my collection The Missing Field brought to you by Poets Corner.

“Water and Other Volatiles” by Jennifer Zilm

Please join me for a night of poetry with Fiona Tin Wei Lam, Michael Mirolla, Ted Goodden, Cornelia Hoagland and Joseph Dandurand at historic Joy Kogawa House.

#16 Hastings While Downtown is beginning to raise up its lazy grace from the curve of Cordova and Carrall— the bottle depot is closed for business. And at Main and Hastings—that crux of intersection— street lamps are dying. Every eye half opened, baffled by light thinking apples v. oranges a perfectly valid comparison. The bus […]

Vallum Poem of the Week: “#16 Hastings” by Jennifer Zilm — Vallum: Contemporary Poetry

The Missing Field has been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, which is  one of three awards (the Gerald Lampert Award and the Raymond Souster Award are the other two) awarded annually by the League of Canadian Poets.

The other shortlisted titles are 

Throughout May the League has been posting Ask a Shortlister mini interviews with questions like Who would you be if you weren’t a poet?
and What are You Reading?

Shortlisted authors were also invited to review each other’s work. Kim Trainor– who is shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award for Ledi– wrote a numbered review of The Missing Field and I wrote a review of Ledi.

The League has been publishing poems from the shortlisted collections through their Poetry Pause mailing list. Poems can also be read on the League’s website. Winners of the awards will be announced at the League’s annual meeting in June. Anyways we write poetry so WE’RE ALL WINNERS!!! (or losers, depending on how you look at it.)

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