Jeremy Ray Jewell
Jeremy Ray Jewell is a poet, critic, and storyteller. He hails from Jacksonville, Florida. He is a frequent contributor to Boston's independent arts and culture magazine, The Arts Fuse. He writes the folklore blog Ilombo Ekjuro.
He focuses on history, folklore, culture, politics, philosophy, and religion. His critical works have been translated into different languages and have been published in Colombia, South Korea, Lithuania, and elsewhere. His creative writing has been featured in a range of publications, from North Carolina's Scalawag magazine and Heron Clan VI, to Footnote from Alternating Current Press.
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.
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Illustration (top): courtesy of Yulia San Miguel Art & Design.
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Publications
Ginger Root’s “Nisemono” and the Virtues of Creative Recycling. Arts Fuse. 11/2022
El Muqui. Ilombo Ekjuro. 9/2022
"Jubilo Done Pass". Footnote #5. Alternating Current Press. 9/2022
Run From The Border. Book & Film Globe. 8/2022
Railroad Bill. Ilombo Ekjuro. 8/2022
“We Carry Their Bones” — Life and Death at a Reform School During Jim Crow. Arts Fuse. 8/2022
“Los memes cerámicos de Chucho Bedoya”. Revista Universidad de Antioquia. Colombia. 7/2022.
Smaller Than Africa. Book & Film Globe. 6/2022
El Mohán. Ilombo Ekjuro. 6/2022
Monaleo — The Houston Woman Keeping it Dirty. Medium. 6/2022
Dueto Dos Rosas Are Defying the Mainstream with Their Ranchera Roots. Sounds & Colours. 6/2022
Roblox — Exploiting Child Labor in the Metaverse. Arts Fuse. 5/2022
Megan Walsh’s "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters". The Smart Set. 5/2022
The South – What Jim Crow Was and Wasn’t. Arts Fuse. 5/2022
“We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive. Arts Fuse. 3/2022
“Cuba: An American History” — Inextricably Linked, For Better and Worse. Arts Fuse. 2/2022
“Home Reading Service” by Fabio Morábito — Beyond Empty Words. Arts Fuse. 1/2022
Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Classic Trio Albums” — The Voice Alone. Arts Fuse. 12/2021
Goodbye Columbus — Mexico City’s “La Joven de Amajac” and “Tlalli” Sculptures. Arts Fuse. 10/2021
Juan Cirerol’s “Punk Feeling” — Mexicali’s Poet of Poverty Returns. Arts Fuse. 7/2021
“Canceling Comedians While the World Burns” — The Case for Comediansplaining. Arts Fuse. 6/2021
“Robert E. Lee and Me” — An Incomplete Reckoning. Arts Fuse. 5/2021
“Dogefather” Elon Musk on SNL – Banking on the Irony of the Rich. Arts Fuse. 5/2021
“Minari” — An Immigrant Tale with a Southern Accent. Arts Fuse. 4/2021
The Harry Smith B-Sides: Precursor to The Harry Smith C(ensored)-Sides? Arts Fuse. 10/2020
Falle Nioke’s “Youkounkoun” EP + 2 Songs — Africa In Any Language. Arts Fuse. 08/2020
Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Arts Fuse. 04/2020
“李子柒 Liziqi” — Nature and Internet Celebrity in the Time of the Coronavirus. Arts Fuse. 02/2020
“La patria y la muerte” — Exposing Mexican “Greatness”. Arts Fuse. 01/2020
“Dying of Whiteness” — What Rough Beast Slouches Toward Kansas to be Born? Arts Fuse. 09/2019
Gabe Lee’s “farmland” — The Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot Blues. Arts Fuse. 08/2019
Dueto Dos Rosas, Five Songs. Arts Fuse. 08/2019
“El Norte” — Recovering a Greater America at the Southern Border. Arts Fuse. 06/2019
“Accounting for Slavery” — Plantation Roots of Scientific Management. Arts Fuse. 05/2019
Three poems: "Tactile Afterlife", "Good News Crackles", "Hillbilly of Monterey Bay". Heron Clan VI. 04/2019.
“Where the Crawdads Sing” — Are the Rural Poor Noble Savages? Arts Fuse. 03/2019
“The Burning House” — Diversity in Segregation. Arts Fuse. 02/2019
Charley Crockett’s “Lil G.L.’s Blue Bonanza” — How Did We Get Here, Charley? Arts Fuse. 01/2019
“Revive Us Again” — Rev. Dr. William Barber II’s Quest to Revive Compassion. Arts Fuse. 12/2018.
Mountain Man’s “Magic Ship” — There’s Magic in Them Thar Hills! Arts Fuse. 12/2018.
“Boosie Blues Cafe” — Rap Reaches Back to the Past. Arts Fuse. 12/2018
Lonnie Holley’s “MITH” — An Act of Restoration". Arts Fuse. 11/2018
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"But I woke from
my dreaming,
my idol was clay"