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Jessica Bebenek

Jessica Bebenek

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Jessica Bebenek est une poète queer interdisciplinaire, créatrice de livres et éducatrice qui vit entre Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) et une cabane hors réseau sur le territoire non cédé des Anishinaabe. Son dernier recueil s'intitule You Don't Get Out Much (2024) et son premier recueil complet, No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press, 2025), a été sélectionné pour le prix A.M. Klein de la Fédération des écrivains du Québec et le prix Concordia First Book.

No One Knows Us There

From wherever I am, I will send word like a golden thread, roll an unravelling ball through time toward myself. In this stunning debut collection, Bronwen Wallace Award finalist Jessica Bebenek presents two distinct and moving portraits of early womanhood. The first is that of the devoted, caregiving granddaughter navigating hospital hallways and the painful realities of palliative care. The second is that of a woman a decade older, compassionately looking back on her younger self. In this second half, Bebenek rewrites poems from the first, honouring unimaginable loss and turning it into genuine healing. At once sensual, visceral, and dreamlike, No One Knows Us There takes us from the sterility of the hospital into the sumptuous natural world. We face horror in a manicured garden and discover beauty in a suncapped lake. A theoretical mathematician leads us to an elk encounter, the crooked bodies of birds are found in the spring thaw, and we become our own pet snail in a mason jar. Ultimately, grief is radically transformed through plainspoken yet lyrical language, and this keen examination of trauma evolves into a striking celebration of the inevitability of change.
25
avril 2026

FRYE Cabaret

Rejoignez-nous pour notre tout premier FRYE Cabaret ! Nos six auteur·rices liront des extraits de leurs dernières parutions, accompagnés par le batteur, percussionniste et compositeur Martin Daigle.  

Présenté en partenariat avec l'Été musical de Barachois.

27
avril 2026

How Far the Light Reaches

This event will begin with a Flash FRYE reading by Rebecca Salazar (antibody, M&S), followed by an in-conversation with Jessica Bebenek (No One Knows Us There, Book*hug) and Canisia Lubrin (The World After Rain, M&S). Join our guests as they discuss the many ways in which we can care for loved ones, as well as honor and mourn unimaginable losses.

28
avril 2026

Poetry & Zine-Making for Self-Expression: a workshop with Jessica Bebenek

LIMITED PLACES! Sign up to reserve your spot! Have you ever wanted to share your writing with like-minded people, but weren’t sure how? This workshop will explore writing poetry and making zines (do-it-yourself mini-books) as creative, accessible ways for anyone to tell their story and find community through self-expression. Participants will leave the workshop with new writing and their very own zine which they can easily & affordably reproduce to share with friends, family, and other zinesters. This workshop has very limited places, please be mindful when signing up. You might be taking someone else's spot if you don't show up!