

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 focuses extensively on history, folklore, culture, politics, philosophy, and religion. His critical works have been featured in different languages and publications from South Korea to Lithuania. His creative 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 also sometimes makes temporary posts on 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.
Illustration (top): courtesy of Yulia San Miguel Art & Design.
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Publications
“Los memes cerámicos de Chucho Bedoya”. Revista Universidad de Antioquia. Colombia. Forthcoming.
Megan Walsh’s "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters". The Smart Set. 5/2022
Book Review: The South – What Jim Crow Was and Wasn’t. Arts Fuse. 5/2022
Book Review: “We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive. Arts Fuse. 3/2022
Book Review: “Home Reading Service” by Fabio Morábito — Beyond Empty Words. Arts Fuse. 1/2022
Album Review: Juan Cirerol’s “Punk Feeling” — Mexicali’s Poet of Poverty Returns. Arts Fuse. 7/2021
Book Review: “Robert E. Lee and Me” — An Incomplete Reckoning. Arts Fuse. 5/2021
Film Commentary: “Minari” — An Immigrant Tale with a Southern Accent. Arts Fuse. 4/2021
Book Commentary: “La patria y la muerte” — Exposing Mexican “Greatness”. Arts Fuse. 01/2020
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
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"But I woke from
my dreaming,
my idol was clay"