In a brief talk about the notebook, time travel,and feminist poetics, MacEachern
engages in arhizomatic re-reading of the modernist andcontemporary genealogies inspiring her debutpoetry collection. A Number of Stunning Attacks (Invisible Press, March 2021), unfolds like a series of dreams, prompting readers to ask – Which cityis this? Which woman is this? Which reader am I?
Jessi MacEachern is Assistant Professor in theDepartment of English at Concordia University inMontréal. Her writing on the contemporaryfeminist poetics of Lisa Robertson, Erín Moure,and Rachel Zolf has appeared in Studies inCanadian Literature/Études en littératurecanadienne and CanLit Across Media. Herpoetry has been published in Poetry Is Dead,Vallum, MuseMedusa, Canthius, PRISM, andCV2.
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