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In The Bones of J.R. Jones' new video for "The Good Life," off his new album Slow Lightning, a blond woman stares dead-eyed into the...

It’s rare that an artist’s favorite song is left off an album. That may or may not have been the case with “Out For Blood,” which failed to make the cut when it came time for the Bones Of J.R. Jones’ Jonathon Linaberry and co-producer Kiyoshi Matsuyama to sequence Slow Lightning. Either way, Linaberry gives high marks to the misfit track, which he describes as “understated but still direct.”

Today, the New York-based artist The Bones of J.R. Jones (a.k.a. Jonathon Linaberry) released a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown” that will appear on the deluxe version of his latest album Slow Lightning. Available February 9, the deluxe album will add the cover and brand new song “Out For Blood” to his first full-length album in more than five years that was released last fall. Tomorrow, J.R.

Eduardo C. Corral Selects Sara Daniele Rivera as Winner of 2023 Academy of American Poets First Book Award - New York, NY (March 28, 2023)—Eduardo...

Poetry Near You Are you looking to connect with poets or find opportunities to hear or study poetry? To find poetry events and resources near you, simply enter your zip code in the search field below. search VIRTUAL: Eduardo C. Corral reads from GUILLOTINE Guillotine traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, the border itself—great distances in which violence and yearning find roots. Through the voices of undocumented immigrants, bo...

Lucien Darjeun Meadows where we are, much more than we are when we are. There is no when without a where. There is no we without a here. NER staff reader Simone Kraus talks to Lucien Darjeun Meadows—author of the essay “Circling Eloh: A Meditation“—about his love of running, the meaning of the Cherokee word “eloh,” his identity as a writer-translator, and the linguistic kaleidoscope in his life. Lucien’s essay appeared in NER 41.4. Simone Kraus: You are a long-distance trail ru...