Anna Veprinska

3 weeks ago | 49thshelf.com | Natalie Lim |Anna Veprinska |Trevor Corkum

When I was invited to put together a list of Canadian books for 49th Shelf, I had trouble deciding what the theme of my list should be. I knew I wanted it to be related in some way to my debut novel, Lake Burntshore, set at a fictional Jewish summer camp in the Muskoka region of Ontario, but beyond that I couldn’t decide. Jewish Canadian fiction? Novels about summer camp? Novels about Israel/Palestine? Books on the settler colonial encounter?

3 weeks ago | 49thshelf.com | Aaron Kreuter |Anna Veprinska |Trevor Corkum

Winter in Ottawa                   for the Love Poem Collective                    after Manahil Bandukwala the Rideau Canal doesn’t freeze over for the first time ever. it feels like a sign, although I’m not sure what of. global warming, I guess. our impending doom. but we sit in the café and talk about love poems and the dread can’t touch us. I think the cold makes me better. more human, aware of my body. the poets who build this world up – they make me better too.