Welcome to Jenni Gehlbach's home page.

Write what?

We talked
of creative imagination
and I said
I don't have a story to tell
and I thought
yet I want to tell it
and I wrote
as I felt.

I sometimes write poetry, and also articles about Gabriola Island's local history, and, occasionally, kayaking. You can click-link to several places from here:


• CONNECTIONS— some of my more recent poems.
• A description of LINES, a collaboratively created book of my poetry with line drawings by Tawny Maclachlan Capon—what it looks like and how to get it.
• The website I maintain for SHALE— the journal edited by Nick Doe and published by Gabriola Historical & Museum Society.
• The website I maintain for GALTT—Gabriola Land and Trails Trust
• The website of Wavelength Magazine whose Summer 2007 issue contains my article "Out the Door and Turn Left" about a short kayaking trip in BC's Gulf Islands, starting in False Narrows off Gabriola Island.
• The website of CORVUS— the on-line poetry magazine published by Poetry Gabriola.

You can also link to shortened web versions of my articles about Gabriola's history. These histories were originally published with more detail and documentation in the journal SHALE published by Gabriola Historical & Museum Society:

• Gabriola's industrial past: the brickyard
  published in SHALE Issue 15, March 2007.
• Gabriola's sandstone quarries
  a summary of several articles published in SHALE Issue 19, November 2008 and Issue 21, July 2009.
• Gabriola Ambulance Society's first 25 years from 1969 to 1994
  published in SHALE Issue 21, July 2009.
• Withey's Shipyard at Silva Bay
  published in SHALE Issue 22, January 2010.
• Unearthing the past: the diatomaceous earth mine on Gabriola
  published in SHALE Issue 24, June 2010.

Please contact me by email to let me know what you think about this work or to ask questions.