Canadian Poets Series #19 : Jérôme Melançon

Jérôme Melançon lives in oskana kâ-asastêki, known colonially as Regina, Saskatchewan. He has also called home various locations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Québec, as well as one in France, in addition to having lived in New Brunswick as a small child. He has published three chapbooks with above/ground press: Bridges under the Water, Tomorrow's Going to Be Bright, and Coup. His fourth French-language collection, Prairial·es, was published by Prise de Parole in October 2025, after En d'sous d'la langue in 2021 and two earlier collections with Éditions des Plaines. He is also a reviewer and critic, publishing mostly with periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics and The Temz Review, but also sometimes in other places such as The Ampersand Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Carousel. His poetry seldom appears online but can be found for instance as part of the Spotlight Series, and in Poets against Fascism; at least one of his French-language poems can be heard online, along with a discussion. More has been published in +doc issue #4 and in Touch the Donkey #33, and his poem “Muskeg, Not In Stillness,” was a finalist for CV2’s two-day poem contest people’s choice prize in 2022. He has taken to translation of poetry (see also periodicities for the bulk of the published output), academic work, as well as archival documents. He teaches in the Philosophy and Classics department at the University of Regina, which means that he publishes quite a bit more in other venues as well.