J.R. CarpenterEntre Ville
![Entre Ville](http://www.oboro.net/wp-content/uploads/2005/09/entreville_mattress_yellow-1.jpg?ver=2.1.9)
J. R. Carpenter
This work is produced as part of the special 50th anniversary activities of the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
My studio window opens into a jumbled intimacy of back balconies, yards and alleyways. Daily my dog and I walk through this interior city sniffing out stories. Poetry is not hard to find between the long lines of peeling-paint fences plastered with notices, spray painted with bright abstractions and draped with trailing vines. The result is Entre Ville, a web-based project presented in the vernacular of my neighbourhood, where cooking smells, noisy neighbours and laundry lines criss-cross the alleyway one sentence at a time. [J.R.C.]
![Entre Ville](http://www.oboro.net/wp-content/uploads/2005/09/entreville_mattress_yellow-1.jpg?ver=2.1.9)
J. R. Carpenter
J. R. Carpenter is a poet, fiction writer and web artist. Winner of the CBC Québec Short Story Competition (2003) and a finalist in the Drunken Boat PanLiterary Awards Web Art Category (2006), she has lived in the Mile End neighbourhood of Montréal since 1992.