February's Lunch Poems reading features poets Frances Boyle and Jennica Harper.

Frances Boyle

Frances Boyle is the author of two books of poetry, This White Nest (2019, Quattro Books) and Light-carved Passages (2014, BuschekBooks), as well as a novella, Tower (2018, Fish Gotta Swim Editions), a short story collection, Seeking Shade (2020, The Porcupine’s Quill) and several chapbooks of both poetry and fiction. She has been awarded the Diana Brebner Prize and won This Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt and the Tree Reading Series chapbook manuscript contest, among other prizes. Frances lives in Ottawa, where she helps edit Arc Poetry Magazine and reviews books for Canthius Feminism and Literary Arts magazine.

Jennica Harper

Jennica Harper's most recent book of poetry is Bounce House (Anvil Press, 2019). She is the author of three previous books of poetry: Wood (Anvil Press, 2013), which was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay prize, What It Feels Like for a Girl (Anvil Press, 2008), and The Octopus and Other Poems (Signature Editions, 2006). Her poetry has been translated for the stage (Initiation Trilogy), gone viral, and won Silver at the National Magazine Awards. Jennica also writes for television, and lives with her family in Vancouver. Purchase her books on the Anvil Press website.