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Jack Grapes

Jack Grapes

Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, teacher, editor and publisher. For 25 years he was editor and publisher of ONTHEBUS, a literary journal that has published the work of nearly a thousand poets and writers from all over the world. Library Journal declared that ONTHEBUS was "destined to be a major aftershock in American literary history." Jack has received several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Literature, numerous NEA Publishing grants, and six grants from the California Arts Council to teach poetry in over 100 Southern California schools. He wrote and starred in Circle of Will, a metaphysical comedy about the lost years of William Shakespeare, which ran for several years in Hollywood and won theater critic awards for Best Comedy and Best Performance by an Actor. For the last 40 years, he has taught writing to over 3,000 poets and writers in his private classes, working from his two books Method Writing and Advanced Method Writing. Published in 2019 by Chatwin Press in Seattle, his Collected Poems: Last of the Outsiders included work from 24 previous collections of poetry written over the last 50 years. His most recent book is Wide Road to the Edge of the World, 301 haiku with an introductory essay, “A Windswept Spirit,” in 201 chapters and 601 paragraphs. Due for publication in 2021 are four non-fiction books: Etherized Upon a Table, a two-volume study on the history and evolution of modern poetries; How to Read Like a Writer, a study of the “six-ways writers write sentences”; The Tender Agonies of Charles Bukowski and Other Essays, covering the work of Marcel Proust, Anton Bruckner, Catullus, Bukowski, and the stylistic strategies of dozens of novelists and poets; and a study of James Joyce and his novel Ulysses, tentatively titled Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes. Jack is also working on a new book of poem, Exit Music.

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Jack Grapes: Three Poems

By Jack Grapes on December 13, 2018

RESUME THE RESUMÉ Some nights I sleep in my tuxedo. My fingers untie the bow-tie in my sleep as if I were swooning to the tune of Begin the... Read more →
Poetry

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Jack Grapes: Two Poems

By Jack Grapes on April 10, 2018

Gulf of Mexico My father liked being on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, anchored near one of the oil rigs, pulling up spade fish and red... Read more →
Beyond Baroque
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An Island in the Middle of a Lake

By Jack Grapes on March 21, 2018

I came to Los Angeles 50 years ago -- in the fall of 1968 -- the same year George Drury Smith founded Beyond Baroque -- to do a pilot for a tv... Read more →
LiteraturePoetry

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Chiwan Choi: The Fire This Time

By Jack Grapes on February 1, 2017

When Chiwan Choi first walked into my class over 25 years ago, he was a 17-year old teenager, quiet and introspective. The writers in my Method... Read more →
cavalry
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Send in the Cavalry!

By Jack Grapes on January 4, 2017

I've said this before, I figured it bears repeating, or resending, especially with so many of us dreading the state of our nation as a (check all... Read more →
Jack Grapes
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Why I Support Cultural Weekly

By Jack Grapes on November 23, 2016

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices. Well, it's impossible to do everything and... Read more →
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Jack Grapes: Five Haiku

By Jack Grapes on November 18, 2015

Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, actor, playwright, and teacher. He's written two how-to books, Method Writing and Advanced Method Writing. He... Read more →
Poetry

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Jack Grapes: “Jessie, My Dog”

By Jack Grapes on December 15, 2014

Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, publisher and teacher. He wrote and starred in Circle of Will, a metaphysical comedy about... Read more →
Literature

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The Limits We Put on Our Writing, and Ourselves

By Jack Grapes on June 25, 2014

What saddens me are the limits we put on our writing, on the "form" we think it must take in order to be approved by those judges we’ve... Read more →
Poetry

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Jack Grapes: “Lake Pontchartrain Seawall” & “Lost Lake”

By Jack Grapes on October 22, 2013

Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, teacher, and the editor and publisher of ONTHEBUS, one of the top literary journals in the... Read more →
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