Canadian Poets Series #11 : Jessi MacEachern

Jessi MacEachern is the author of two books of poetry: Cut Side Down (Invisible, 2025) and A Number of Stunning Attacks (Invisible, 2021). She is also the author of four chapbooks: When a Folk, When a Sprawl (above/ground press, 2023), Television Poems (above/ground press, 2021), You Do Not Like Animal Sounds (Ghost City Press, 2021), and Ravishing the Sex into the Hold (Model Press, 2021). Her scholarship on contemporary feminist poetics has been published or is forthcoming in anthologies such as Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge (University of Alberta Press, 2025) and Un-archiving the Literary Event: CanLit Across Media (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019) and journals such as Canadian Literature and Studies in Canadian Literature. She is the 2022-2024 reviewer of Poetics for Oxford University Press's The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Recent work appears online at the ex-puritan, The Pi Review and Carousel, and recently participated in the 4 questions series with Erín Moure, now up at YouTube. You can also find an interview Sarah Burgoyne conducted with her via Canthius, rob mclennan via the "12 or 20 questions" series, and a further, conducted via Open Book, as well as the video of a Zoom reading with Sarah Burgoyne, as well as the virtual KFB launch of her second collection. She has held limited term positions as an Assistant Professor in English at Concordia University (Montréal, QC) and Bishop's University (Lennoxville, QC) and served as a Visiting Professor in English Studies at Université de Montréal (Montréal, QC). She currently lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal where she works as a professor in English and Continuing Studies at Dawson College.