Jake Kennedy

Jake Kennedy is a teacher editor filmmaker and experimental writer Originally from Streetsville Ont Kennedy lives in Kelowna BC the heartfist of Canadas Okanagan region He teaches English literature and creative writing courses at Okanagan College where he blows students cerebellums His first book The Lateral won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry from Montreals Snare Books Apollinaires Speech to the War Medic is his second collection of poetry which was published by BookThug who also published his bpNichol chapbook award winning Hazard Kennedy also coedited an anthology of graphic poetry Boredom Fighters with Paola Poletto With his bestfriend kevin mcpherson eckhoff Kennedy has written and produced car interviews with several Canadian and American poets including Bhanu Kapil and Margaret Atwood These Silver Cars Sessions revel in culture obscurity Currently the two are curating a communitywritten novel called Death Valley