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Saturday, December 2, 2023 Blood Rummage by Jonah Ruddock

Posted at 09:54h in JBWC Fellowships, Young Writers, Youth Fellowships, Youth Publications by

“Blind Contour Portrait” by Samantha Serrano
Cover design by Sage Enderton

Presenting a selection of pieces from Blood Rummage by JBWC Youth Fellow Jonah Ruddock.

“These are some pieces from my project Blood Rummage. In it, a microplastic traverses a wilderness of waste and decay. Remember: everything is touching everything else, and everyone is lying to you.”
—Jonah Ruddock

“Jonah Ruddock’s Blood Rummage, written with biting and intelligent care, pulses through the tangle of our evermore embedded human relationship with (micro)plastic and reckons with ‘the gnashing absurd’ present moment. Ruddock’s poetry travels and fragments through hosts, stage directions, sermons, and more-than-human conversations until we, like plastic, are no longer ‘immediately acquainted’ with ourselves. This is geopoetic deep time work.”
—Christina Vega-Westhoff

MENTORS: Lillian Yvonne-Bertram, Nina Vega-Westhoff, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper

Each summer, the Just Buffalo Writing Center Youth Fellowship offers a motivated young writer the opportunity to develop their craft and explore professional avenues within the literary arts. Learn more & apply.

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