Poetry
St. Boniface Elegies includes lyric poems about domestic life and loss, the role of the poet within a changing cityscape, and a series of poems that engage with poetic tradition. >>
The poems in Still Hungry are elegant meditations on how food so often shapes the crucial moments in our lives — moments of sexual intimacy, love, friendship, betrayal and rebirth. >>
The submerged foundations of a ruined city, ancient statuary, a drop of water echoing in an empty tomb, heat left on a path walked by generations—these remnants of passage are examined intensely, looking back toward their origins and forward into the possibilities of transformation. >>
Swimming into the Light charts a woman's struggle, from the frustration and despair over infertility to the uncertainty of international adoption and rescuing a new life from a war-torn country, and finally to the quiet reflections on motherhood. >>
A diagnostic eyewitness to the complexities of life, Tablet Fragments explores the natural history of familial and romantic relationships, the impacting of migration and displacement, and composite identities as outsider and insider.
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A bilingual collection of love poems, Text Me expresses through language and metaphor the many ways to say “I love you.” >>
That Singing You Hear at the Edges
In this collection, the dividing walls of time and place remain intact but approach transparency because of what turns visible—and audible—when we become still enough to hear the singing at the edges. >>
Jennifer Houle's debut poetry collection comes from a place of grappling, an attempt to find meaning, beauty and connection in the day-to-day, without being confined by it. >>
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