Jason Irwin

Saturday, November 20, 2021

BlazeVOX 21: Natalie Wood Will Be There When Jim Morrison Rises from The Grave

http://www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/BXFall21/Fall%2021%20-%20Jason%20Irwin.pdf

Friday, October 1, 2021

Reading with Jee Leong Koh at KGB Bar, NYC 10/18

Thursday, August 12, 2021

Authors' Hour @ Chautauqua

Friday, August 6, 2021

Author's Hour @ Chautauqua Institute: Judith Bowles & Jason Irwin 8/12

Monday, July 26, 2021

The History of Our Vagrancies & A Blister of Stars available for purchace.

Both books are available by emailing me or going to paypal & using my email: ughpug@hotmail.com

The History of Our Vagrancies $17 includes shipping.

A Blister of Stars $12 includes shipping.

Both books for $25.

The History of Our Vagancies (Main Street Rag, 2020)

"My father asks me to go to church//and write the hymn numbers on a sheet of yellow paper./He read about a woman in Michigan who won the Powerball this way." Family love is all the more real for being volatile, spirituality deeper for being fueled at times by Black Mollies and Budweiser. Jason Irwin has created a world of visionary contingency and immanence. A History of Our Vagrancies is exemplary, a keeper and a gem. --D. Nurkse

A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost Books, 2016)

I’ve known Jason Irwin for a few years now. I started seeing him at readings around town and when he read his work I was just dumbstruck. It was like waking up one morning to find Philip Levine camping in your backyard. Jason’s writing explores themes of illness, poverty, religion, and family. All of which in lesser hands could come across as maudlin. But not with Irwin’s work. The sheer emotional depth of his poems is incredible. And the dignity with which he allows people to tell their stories through his work is personally very inspiring. Jason’s work might be my Platonic ideal of a Low Ghost book. -- Kris Collins