Jesse Patrick is a Canadian poet, reviewer and academic. He was born in Cornwall, Ontario

Cornwall, Ontario

Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada and the seat of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario. Cornwall is Ontario's easternmost city, located on the St...

 and now lives in Sydney, Nova Scotia. His poems and reviews have been published in ten countries, in both print and online formats, such as in Canadian Literature, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Grain, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry

Poetry (magazine)

Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately...

and Harper’s.
His work has also been selected for inclusion in the anthology Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009, edited by A.F. Moritz. He has been a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead

The Fiddlehead

The Fiddlehead is a Canadian literary magazine, published four times annually at the University of New Brunswick.The journal was established in 1945 by Alfred Bailey as an in-house publication for the Bliss Carman Poetry Society; it was converted into a general literary magazine in 1952...

, and he plays several musical instruments. In fall 2009, Freehand Books

Freehand Books

Freehand Books is a Canadian literary imprint started in 2007 by Broadview Press, a Canadian academic publisher. Freehand publishes literary fiction, literary non-fiction, memoir and poetry....

published his first full-length poetry collection, Harmonics.