Jeremy Ray Jewell
Writer
Jeremy Ray Jewell is a poet, critic, and storyteller. He hails from Jacksonville, Florida.
His work focuses extensively on history, folklore, culture, politics, philosophy, and religion. He writes with particular interest in the US South, the broader United States, and the Americas, as well as the intersection of subjectivity and solidarity.
His writing has been featured in a range of publications, from North Carolina's Scalawag magazine and Heron Clan VI, to the University of North Florida's Poetry Fix. He is a frequent contributor to Boston's Arts Fuse magazine, writing on a variety of subjects from theology to music. He also sometimes maintains a blog entitled That's Not Southern Gothic.
He holds an MA in History of Ideas from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Photo (left): Reverend Rufus Hickey Jewell, pastor of the Pleasant Grove Methodist Church of Etowah, McMinn County, Tennessee. Photo from a revival, late 1800s, Dayton, TN.
Works
Country Music Review: Gabe Lee’s “farmland” — The Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot Blues. Arts Fuse. 08/2019
Folk Music Review: Dueto Dos Rosas, Five Songs. Arts Fuse. 08/2019
Book Review: “El Norte” — Recovering a Greater America at the Southern Border. Arts Fuse. 06/2019
Three poems: "Tactile Afterlife", "Good News Crackles", "Hillbilly of Monterey Bay". Heron Clan VI. 04/2019.
Book Review: “Where the Crawdads Sing” — Are the Rural Poor Noble Savages? Arts Fuse. 03/2019
Book Review: “The Burning House” — Diversity in Segregation. Arts Fuse. 02/2019
Folk CD Review: Mountain Man’s “Magic Ship” — There’s Magic in Them Thar Hills! Arts Fuse. 12/2018.
CD Review: “Boosie Blues Cafe” — Rap Reaches Back to the Past. Arts Fuse. 12/2018
Folk CD Review: Lonnie Holley’s “MITH” — An Act of Restoration". Arts Fuse. 11/2018
"But I woke from
my dreaming,
my idol was clay"