Poetry. HAZARD is a collection of prose-poems and some other fine bonbons about the dangers and delights of the art-making life. In particular it explores the uncanny biographical details of seven artists/writers: Balzac, Claude Cahun, Kathy Acker, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Osip Mandelstam, Samuel Beckett, and Malcolm Lowry.
Jake Kennedy's writing has appeared in "McSweeney's Internet Tendency," "Pissing Ice Anthology: New Canadian Poets," "Drunken Boat," "Kiss Machine," and "The Diagram." His BookThug chapbook entitled "Hazard" won the 2006 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Jake also helped edit, with his artist friend Paola Poletto, "Boredom Fighters: A Graphic Poem Anthology" (Tightrope Books) in 2008.