Jennifer Boire is a Montreal poet who has published poetry (and one short story) across Canada and recently on the net. She has also written book reviews for Prairie Fire, Vallum, and the Globe and Mail, and has lead journal writing workshops for women on the theme of Writing the Body. Her chapbook "A Place of Trees" with Over the Moon Press is a series based on a re-imagining of Eve. "Little Mother," a book of poems and a pregnancy journal, was published by Hochelaga Press in 1997. A mini-CD of recorded poems, "Holding the Song," was released in 2005 with Wiredonwords and can be found in the cigarette machine at the Casa del Popolo.

Some of her poetry has been translated into French by André Jérôme, and performed with Kim Gosselin on cello for the Marché de la poésie and at the 5th annual Words & Music Gala in October 2005. The most exciting poetry event she was invited to was the Festival international de la poésie in Trois Rivières, with the annual Spring Poetry Reading in Portland, Ontario a close second. Her future is uncertain but may involve writing and producing a play that expands on the Eve story, and a second manuscript of poems, "Longing & Desire."

As League of Canadian Poets rep for Quebec and Nunavut from 2003-05 she organized several readings, and is currently on the board of the Quebec Writers’ Federation.



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Little Mother. Hochelaga Press, Montreal, 1997.
ISBN 1: 0-9699349-1-2.

A Place of Trees. Over the Moon Press, Montreal, 2003.
ISBN 0-9684083-9-7.


AWARDS

Canadian Author and Bookman Poetry Contest, 1988.
Irving Layton Award, Concordia University, runner up, 1989.