My poem “Elegy Written in a Jewish Graveyard and Ending with a Defecation” in Arc Poetry Magazine’s “Disability Desirability” theme issue (Fall 2023)
My third full length poetry collection Is This Scary? was published spring 2021 with ECW Press. The book has been positively review by The Toronto Star and Rain Taxi.
Anna Mehler Paperny, author of the National Bestseller Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me said of Is This Scary?: “Jacob Scheier’s poetry yanks you back to the septic-antiseptic psych ward, the dissociation of drowning in suicidality, the mad-scientist feeling of psychotropic medication. It reminds you how vital it is to be understood, even when enduring what’s impossible to convey.
Poems from Is This Scary has been published in The Walrus, Vallum, and The Humber Literary Review–among other publications. Poems from the book also were nominated for a National Magazine Award and longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize.
My second full length poetry collection, Letter from Brooklyn (ECW Press) was published this Spring 2013! Click here for more info. Also info and reviews of my first collection, More to Keep us Warm (ECW Press) can be found here.
Three poems from Letter From Brooklyn can be read following my interview with the Toronto Quarterly. Read the poems and interview here.
Letter from Brooklyn reviewed favourably on poet Catherine Owen’s “OCD Crow” blog
“Single Man’s Song” published in Rattle 35 (Summer 2011): Tribute to Canadian Poets with audio recording.
My interview with rob mclennan
Podcast of me reading at the International Festival of Authors, 2009.
My interview with The Globe and Mail “In Other Words” Blog.
“The Bus Ride that Became a Horror Movie,” “For Dave in Istanbul” and “A Love Poem” published in Prism International 47.4 (Summer 2009)
“Dear Office of Homeland Security” published in Geist
“What Keeps me up at Night” and “Untitled” published in Descant