Jessi MacEachern
Courriels
j.maceachern@umontreal.ca (Travail)
Biographie
Ph.D. English Studies, Université de Montréal (2019)
M.A. English (Creative Writing), Concordia University (2011)
B.A. English Honours, University of New Brunswick (2009)
Programmes d’enseignement
- Baccalauréat en études anglaises – Lettres et langues
- Majeure en études anglaises – Lettres et langues
- Mineure en études anglaises – Lettres et langues
- Microprogramme de 1er cycle en langue et culture anglaises – Lettres et langues
- Maîtrise en études anglaises – Lettres et langues
- Doctorat en études anglaises – Lettres et langues
Cours donnés
- ANG1005 Reading Popular Culture
- ANG6185 Later 20th-Century American Literature
Publications Tout déplier Tout replier
Publications (Literature)
Books (Poetry)
Cut Side Down. Invisible Publishing. Forthcoming, 2025.
A Number of Stunning Attacks. Invisible Publishing, 2021.
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.
Ravishing the Sex into the Hold. Model Press, 2021.
Fiction
“Observation’s Vehicle.” CAROUSEL, January 2024.
Poetry
"The Submerged Artist." P-Queue: Essays and Extensions from Poetry to Prose, vol. 20. Forthcoming 2025.
"Are You Dying to Catch its Petals?" P-Queue. Forthcoming 2025.
"The Rosy Saga." P-Queue. Forthcoming 2025.
"I Don't Like Everything." P-Queue. Forthcoming 2025.
"If In Service." P-Queue. Forthcoming 2025.
"A Door Whines and I Go." P-Queue. Forthcoming 2025.
"His Ego is Larger Than Hades." P-Queue. Forthcoming 2025.
"Magic is All Around." P-Queue. Forthcoming 2025.
"Tell Me Something." P-Queue. Forthcoming 2025.
"You Are Wearing Infinity." The Dalhousie Review. Forthcoming 2025.
"My Egg Yolk Pudding." Arc Magazine. Forthcoming 2025.
"The Party Sushi Went Bad." Arc Magazine. Forthcoming 2025.
"Changes in Appetite." This Magazine. Forthcoming 2025.
"Everyone Wants You." Grain Magazine, January 2025.
"Strictly Speaking." Grain Magazine, January 2025.
"Achieved Dissonance." Ex-Puritan, January 2025.
"The Road Novel's Final Scene." Ex-Puritan, January 2025.
"Hold for a Count." The Pi Review, December 2024.
“I am the gold machine.” Poetic Systems, Glyphoria, November 2023.
“Transporting Crumbles.” NationalPoetryMonth.ca, April 2023.
“Idle and Steam.” Vallum, vol. 18, no. 2, December 2021.
“It Meant That Much.” Touch the Donkey, vol. 31, October 2021.
“The Violence of the Hammer is Thrilling.” Touch the Donkey, vol. 31, October 2021.
“The Factory Missile.” Always Crashing. 31 August 2021.
“Freeman’s Next Book is a Poetry Collection.” Always Crashing. 31 August 2021.
“I’m My Own Little One.” Always Crashing. 31 August 31 2021.
“C Waltz.” CAROUSEL, vol. 45, August 2021.
“Red River Jig.” CAROUSEL, vol. 45, August 2021.
“A Veritable Hothouse.” Poetry Is Dead, vol. 19, April 2019.
“A Look Back.” Vallum, vol. 15, no. 2, October 2018 (Digital Edition).
“Accept the Intervention & Then Continue.” MuseMedusa, vol. 6, September 2018.
“Inhospitable Mountains in the Sun.” MuseMedusa, vol. 6, September 2018.
“I Knew it in the Teeth.” MuseMedusa, vol. 6, September 2018.
“Cow Tune.” Canthius, vol. 5, July 2018.
“Radio Dress.” Canthius, vol. 5, July 2018.
“To Read of Women and Men.” MuseMedusa, vol. 5. July 2017.
“Come and Measure a New Self.” PRISM, vol. 54. September 2015.
“Bearing Witness.” CV2, vol. 37, no. 3. December 2014.
“What Remains is in the Margins.” CV2, vol. 37, no. 3. December 2014.
“Digest Headline.” Headlight, vol. 15. Montreal, QC: April 2012.
“Averted.” h/edges. Ed. Bronwyn Haslam et al. Intro. by Gail Scott. Montreal, QC: March 2012.
“Dizzied Rhombus.” h/edges. Ed. Bronwyn Haslam et al. Montreal, QC: March 2012.
Interviews and Essays on Writing
“Nouveau Folk Poetics, or You Are What You Eat.” periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. 01 Apr 2023.
“Jessi MacEachern in Conversation with Sarah Burgoyne.” Canthius. 09 Mar 2022.
“TtD supplement #200: seven questions for Jessi MacEachern.” Touch the Donkey. 25 Oct 2021.
“The Rot and Clutter of Television Poems.” periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. 01 Sep 2021.
“Poetry Express: Jessi MacEachern + A Number of Stunning Attacks.” All Lit Up. 12 Apr 2021.
“12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jessi MacEachern.” rob mclennan’s blog. 05 Apr 2021.
“Arc Poetry Newsletter March 2021.” Arc Poetry Magazine. 29 Mar 2021.
“Part One” to “Part Five.” Interview questions by Thomas Whyte. Mini Poetry Interviews: Very Short Interviews with Poets. 25 Feb 2021 – 25 Mar 2021.
“‘Poetry is a Polyamorous Party’: Jessi MacEachern on Early Influences, a Poem a Day, & Why She Can’t Name Just One Favourite.” Open Book. 24 Feb 2021.
Publications (Criticism)
Chapters
“Debris Growing Skyward: The Sheltered Flâneur of Gail Scott’s Main Brides.” Shelter in Text. Edited by Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik. University of Alberta Press. Forthcoming 2025.
“The Material of Palinodic Time: Sounding the Voice of Lisa Robertson’s Archival Poetics.” Un-archiving the Literary Event: CanLit Across Media. Edited by Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019.
Articles (Peer Review)
“Without Togetherness: The Intersectional Impasse of Rachel Zolf’s Collaborative Poetics.” Canadian Literature, vol. 254, 2023, pp. 36–56.
“Mobilizing Affect and Intellect in Erotic Citizenship: or, The Becoming Lover of Erín Moure’s Citizen Trilogy.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 46, no.1, 2021, pp. 166–88.
“The Feminist Poet Re-Creates the Soundscape: The Excessive Noise of Lisa Robertson and Rachel Zolf.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, 2017, pp. 281-98.
Essays and Reviews
“Poetics.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Oxford University Press, vol. 33, Forthcoming 2025.
“Poetics.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Oxford University Press, vol. 32, 2024.
Rev. of Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought by Paul Magee. Textual Cultures, vol. 17, no. 1, 2024.
“Poetics.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Oxford University Press, vol. 31, 2023.
“The View from Here: Re-Visioning Nation and Genre in Lisa Robertson’s Debbie: An Epic.” periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, November 2022.
“A Dis-Ease Rendered in Lyric and Fragment.” Rev. of Sadiqa de Meijer’s The Outer Wards, Erín Moure’s The Elements, and Sachiko Murakami’s Render. Canadian Literature, March 2021.
“Tender but Uneasy.” Rev. of Samantha Bernstein’s Spit on the Devil, Mary Corkery’s Simultaneous Windows, and Basma Kavanagh’s Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots. Canadian Literature, February 2019.
“Fragile and Heavy Ho-Hums.” Rev. of Jay Ritchie’s Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie. Arc Poetry, October 2018.
“Becoming-Gods: Canisia Lubrin’s Army of Revolutionary Zombies,” Rev. of Voodoo Hypothesis by Canisia Lubrin. The Puritan, March 2018.
Rev. of MxT by Sina Queyras. The Bull Calf Review, January 2015.
Rev. of Cinema of Present by Lisa Robertson. Matrix, January 2015.
“The Limbless and Resolute in Kotsilidis’ Hypotheticals.” Rev. of Leigh Kotsilidis’ Hypotheticals. Lemon Hound, September 2012.
“On Lisa Robertson.” Rev. of Lisa Robertson’s Debbie: An Epic. Lemon Hound, April 2011.
Reading Guides
“ʔbédayine.” Reading Guide of book by Kaitlyn Purcell. Espace de la diversite, March 2024.