jessi

@jessisays.bsky.social

Poet, teacher, scholar in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Cut Side Down (2025) and A Number of Stunning Attacks (2021) available from the small, scrappy, Canadian press Invisible Publishing. https://linktr.ee/jessisays

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper

Late to the Sealey challenge, so reading two chapbooks a day… 1. Emma Rhodes, Razor Burn (Anstruther, 2023) 2. Janice Colman, Playing Cello for a Dead Bird (Turret House, 2025)

A hand holding the two chapbooks before a historical map.

Maritime friends! If you’re in Nova Scotia, Canning Library is the place to be this Thursday, July 23 at 7 PM. Four writers — Kasia Van Schaik, Jessi MacEachern, Adam Haiun, and Holly Vestad — will be reading to the public for free. Join us and tell your friends!

The sunset view outside Jampolis Cottage in Avonport NS.

📣 Fall 2026 📣 We’ve got a perfect pair of books lined up for fall: essays by Erin Wunker and poetry by Dani Spinosa! Read all about ‘em over on our website - you can preorder there now, or do so via your favourite independent bookstore.

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