Jeremy Lybarger
Writer at Freelance
Features Editor at Poetry Magazine
Editing prose @poetrymagazine + @PoetryFound // Writer // Working on Midnight Tremor: The Life and Art of Roger Brown
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
artforum.com | Jeremy Lybarger
Of all the artists of New York’s East Village in the 1980s—that almost folkloric bunch once dubbed the New Irascibles—none seem to have had the effervescence of Arch Connelly (1950–1993). His mixed-media assemblages and collages have an embellished craftedness, like a Joyce Leslie dress rhinestoned into a suburban queen’s idea of opulence.
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4 weeks ago |
4columns.org | Jeremy Lybarger
Tramps Like Us Jeremy Lybarger Joe Westmoreland’s 2001 picaresque road novel chronicles a young man’s zigzagging search for queer belonging. Tramps Like Us, by Joe Westmoreland, MCD, 361 pages, $19• • •Queer life finds itself in crowds. Growing up amid the pesticidal greenery and Biblical first names of my little town in the Midwest, I dreamed of New York, a city I knew only from sitcoms.
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4 weeks ago |
artnews.com | Jeremy Lybarger
Leah Ke Yi Zheng never intended to be an artist. Growing up in China, she studied with a traditional painter, who taught her calligraphy and how to copy the old masters. But when it came time to choose a career, she decided to become a judge. Although unfamiliar with United States history and the American legal code, she took her LSAT in Hong Kong and enrolled in law school in Indiana. Disenchanted, she dropped out during her second year, and her mother urged her to pursue a business degree.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Jeremy Lybarger
7 hours agoA memorial bust of American singer Jim Morrison that was stolen from his grave 37 years ago has been found by chance, according to French police. The statue of The Doors frontman was recovered in Paris during an investigation conducted by its financial and anti-corruption arm that was unrelated to …
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1 month ago |
newrepublic.com | Jeremy Lybarger
In “The Many Faces of R. Crumb,” a comic from 1972, the eponymous underground cartoonist offers readers a crash course in his various personae. There’s Crumb the “long-suffering” artist, bearing the scars of stigmata as he hunches over his drawing table. There’s Crumb the “sentimental slob,” weeping into his booze while treacly music plays, and Crumb the “free spirit,” wandering down the highway with a suitcase and a bindle.
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"I'm not gonna say everyone needs a dildo, but I'm gonna say that there are many people whose lives would be improved by dildos." — @accommodatingly on this week's podcast, talking about her new anthology SUPER GAY POEMS https://t.co/HaG3Of8xMg
Two by Roger Brown: Mothra At Inner Circle Drive (1988) and Killer Crab (1986) https://t.co/u6OvUUkJGc
From the June issue of @poetrymagazine, three new essays in the "Hard Feelings" series: Richard Hell on despair: https://t.co/HOVga84gtG Elaine Kahn on shame: https://t.co/Meuq1ksLZ1 Will Harris on neediness: https://t.co/XRcixdUihU