I attended the World of Bob Dylan Symposium and met my heroes!
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Woody Guthrie’s banjo.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship!
I’ve been awarded a Tulsa Artist Fellowship for 2019! This is a radical program aimed at building a thriving arts community in Tulsa by recruiting artists and then providing them with unrestricted creative freedom (and a comfortable middle-class existence)!
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I also modeled for the cover apparently.
Talkin' Bob Dylan Nobel Blues
I've got an essay in the latest issue of Boulevard literary magazine, as part of their symposium on Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, alongside works by buddy-heroes Adrian Matejka and Cate Lycurgus. Grateful to editor Jessica Rogen for asking me to contribute!
Not yet available online, but you can buy a print copy. Here's an excerpt:
"As artists, readers, and citizens, we could take a cue from Dylan's stubbornness. His intrepidness in meeting America on the ground, in its Triple-A ballparks and graveyards. His dedication to moving forward, his resistance to sliding into the tyranny of self-parody."