Jennifer Bowering Delisle : part one

Jennifer Bowering Delisle (she/her) is the author of Deriving, a poetry collection, and The Bosun Chair, a lyric family memoir. She is a member of the board of NeWest Press, and regularly teaches creative writing. She is a settler in Edmonton/Amiskwaciwâskahikan/Treaty 6 territory. Find her at www.jenniferdelisle.ca or @JenBDelisle.

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?

As a reader, I like how poetry asks me to slow down, pay attention, reread—I enter a different headspace, where deeper engagement and reflection are possible. As a poet, I like how poetry’s compression, sound, and figurative language can enable multiple layers of meaning. I can convey so much more in a few words.