Jennifer Zilm : part five

What other poetry books have you been reading lately?

Rachel Zucker’s The Pedestrians, Kim Trainor's Ledi, Carl Phillips, Sue Goyette, C.D. Wright, Ian Williams— I keep a list at https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5857664-jennifer?shelf=2018

Jennifer Zilm : part four

What other poetry books have you been reading lately?
 
I write in notebooks, on postcards, on scrap paper. I like to have one person to swap poems with (a poetry wife) or a small group of writers—I like a cultish, coven atmosphere.

Jennifer Zilm : part three

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with?

I write in notebooks, on postcards, on scrap paper. I like to have one person to swap poems with (a poetry wife) or a small group of writers—I like a cultish, coven atmosphere.

Jennifer Zilm : part two

How did you first engage with poetry?

On epic road trips through B.C. between Terrace and Greater Vancouver when I was three years old I heard Bob Dylan’s line “ten thousand miles in the mouth of graveyard” and I still can’t see clear cut patches on mountains without shaking.

Jennifer Zilm : part one

Based in Greater Vancouver, Jennifer Zilm is descended from a long line of charismatic hillbillies. She is the author of the books Waiting Room (BookThug, 2013) and The Missing Field (Guernica 2018). She works in public libraries, detoxes and social housing and is a failed bible scholar.

What are you working on?

A series of poems, prose fragments and erasures that is intended to be my version of Proust’s In search of lost time set in Surrey, B.C. the mystical bedroom community of Vancouver known for loose women and car theft where I grew up.