{"id":57077,"date":"2023-05-22T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=57077"},"modified":"2023-06-17T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T16:26:08","slug":"jay-jeff-jones-such-a-fine-and-true-poet-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2023\/05\/jay-jeff-jones-such-a-fine-and-true-poet-rip.html","title":{"rendered":"Jay Jeff Jones, RIP<\/em><\/font>
Playwright, Essayist, Critic, and Such a Fine and True Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

He died Sunday, May 21, 2023. He was 77. <\/strong><\/em>After theater studies and acting with The Mime Troupe in San Francisco, he moved to England, where he mostly lived since. In London he worked for Transatlantic Review, the British Drama League, and Running Man Press \u2014 and later edited the quarterly New Yorkshire Writing and co-curated (with Douglas Field) the exhibition “OffBeat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground” at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, which drew 130,000 visitors. He published poetry, essays, reviews, and fiction in many magazines and anthologies. His poem “Passion” was recently published by Cold Turkey Press in a folio entitled Silenian Odes.<\/em> Have a look at his poem “ET IN BOHEMIA EGO.”<\/a> His 1970s-era play about Jim Morrison, “The Lizzard King<\/a>,” was published as a chapbook in 2021. The Wind Pours By Like Destiny<\/a>,<\/em> his uncommonly rich meditation on the poets Sylvia Plath and Asa Benveniste and, as the subtitle puts it, \u201cthe poetic afterlife,\u201d was published as a chapbook in 2022. And here at Straight Up, the staff was proud to post much by and about him. You can seek it here. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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He died Saturday, May 20, 2023. He was 77. After theater studies and acting with The Mime Troupe in San Francisco, he moved to England, where he mostly lived since. In London he worked for Transatlantic Review, the British Drama League, and Running Man Press \u2014 and later edited the quarterly New Yorkshire Writing and co-curated (with Douglas Field) exhibition “OffBeat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground” at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, which drew 130,000 visitors. He published poetry, essays, reviews, and fiction in many magazines and anthologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/jay-jeff-jones-mugshot-200.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-eQB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57404,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57077\/revisions\/57404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}