Background
He was born in Cornwall, Ontario and has lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and Sydney, Nova Scotia.
He was born in Cornwall, Ontario and has lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and Sydney, Nova Scotia.
His poems and reviews have been published in twelve countries, in both print and online formats, such as in Canadian Literature, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Grain, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry and Harper’son His work has also been selected for inclusion in the anthology Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009, edited by Armed Forces Moritz. He has been a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead, and he plays several musical instruments.
In fall 2009, Freehand Books published his first full-length poetry collection, Harmonics.
His second full-length book, consisting entirely of visual (concrete) poetry is Dirty Semiotics (Broken Jaw Press, 2011). His most recent book is Mr.
Sapiens (Wolsak and Wynn, 2014). In his videos, there has been wedding photos, it is highly likely these are left over sample photo from the photo frame.
Jesse Patrick Ferguson has been bestowed the title of Bard of Cornwall.
He has argued that this is not the case, and that his title is merely a joke.Skeptics claim that this is merely a ruse to avoid his fame being taken too seriously.