Jessi MacEachern : part one

Jessi MacEachern lives in Montréal, QC. Her writing on the contemporary feminist poetics of Lisa Robertson, Erín Moure, and Rachel Zolf has been published in Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature Canadienne and CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Is Dead, Vallum, MuseMedusa, Canthius, PRISM, and CV2. Her first full-length poetry collection, A Number of Stunning Attacks, is forthcoming with Invisible in March 2021. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University.

What are you working on?

I don’t have a specific project in mind, I never do, the “project” is almost always discovered after the thing is completed, but I am attempting to write a poem a day in 2021. I say this at the beginning of the year, with full awareness that it is a terrible thing to make a public promise you are unlikely to keep. With these first poems, there is the undercurrent of our present tumultuous moment in time, it’s unavoidable, but I’m trying to come at it slant: an investigation into slow time or a foray into the interior lives of household objects.