“Our Yearly Sun Turns Around” by Jessica Zhao
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Our Yearly Sun Turns Around” by Jessica Zhao, part of the 2025 Poem in Your Pocket Day collection and first place winner of the 2024 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize, junior category.
Our Yearly Sun Turns Around
By Jessica Zhao

Copyright © Jessica Zhao
Jessica Zhao is a grade 9 student. Her poem “Our Yearly Sun Turns Around” won first place in the junior category of the 2024 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize.
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