j.Nicholas & Company
Teaching artist
Consultations include:
Basic writing skills
College writing
Content writing
Concept to Manuscript
Creative Writing Workshop
Essay development
Editing
Grant Review
Manuscript appraisal
Let’s W.R.A.P. Workshop
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Reading poems at Emge Elementary School
"In Shrimp, jason vasser-elong casts past, present, and future into the waters of fitful reckoning. His words emerge from the waves and froth, spelling out the truths behind ancestry and individuality."
- Ron Austin, professor, author and 2016 Regional Arts Commission Fellow
"Through the inviting poems in Shrimp, jason vasser-elong includes us on his lyric quest to determine who he is and in what ways he as an individual connects with his family, his multi-racial lineage and present day society. With quiet determination, poetic poise and concision, in shrimp he paints for us a powerful portrait of a man unafraid to examine himself and his surroundings, whether he's in the kitchen cooking dinner or walking down Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis."
- Sally Van Doren, poet, artist and author of the poetry collection, Promise: Poems (2017).
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"jason vasser-elong's verse pulls at the very sinews of our heart muscles. With a surgeon's eye, he moves from massaging the muscle to life - 'she looks back over her tomb/then back into the trees/ trembling to the shore' - to incisive cutting - 'beneath my skin are feathers,/ what comes out as words are really songs.' The dexterity with which he moves between subjectivities serves to create an adventurous collection; alternately gripping with suspenseful narrative, and, and at times, drenched in sorrowful, knowing lyricism. shrimp is an astounding debut collection."
- Treasure Shields-Redmond, poet, speaker, diversity and inclusion coach, and social justice educator.
