Jagged Thought #322: Protesting Shattuck Hospital
A Call to action Jagged Thought by our Editor Jason Wright.
Jagged Thought #309: To the End
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Remembering 9/11- Remembering Jimmy Cherry
This is a memorial post dedicated to the late Jimmy Cherry who my family lost on 9/11/04. A different tragedy, for a different reason. I published this in 2009 in the first years of Oddball Magazine. Jason
Jagged Thought #156: Poem for a Rainy Day
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Jagged Thought #145: Caffeine
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Jagged Thoughts #103: Voices
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Jagged Thoughts #53: How to Fix a Broken Life
First step is to realize that it is not your fault. That everything happens for a reason. That to build yourself up sometimes you have to tear your self down. [...]
A 3TV Extra
Banner design © TJ Edson Before we debut the JP Lime piece for Oddball Magazine today at 1:00 PM, wanted to throw out a bonus video we [...]
A 3TV Extra
In last week's Jagged Thoughts column, Jason Wright finished his series "Art, the City and the Elevator Dream." What we have been slowly doing to each post since [...]
Stone Soup Servings Presents: Jason Wright
Stone Soup Servings is a regular series for Oddball Magazine that features upcoming performers at Stone Soup Poetry, the long-running spoken word venue in the Boston area that has recently partnered [...]
Jagged Thoughts #5 Memories of Crescent Street
I remember when I was young Not really, most of those memories are gone but I have seen pictures family pictures of my smiling sisters, and my older brother all probably [...]
A Special Jagged Thought Dedicated to Joe Gouveia by Jason Wright
10 Angels (A New Journal) I hope you find healing in these words my friend. For Joe We suffer for something. Makes us strong. A stitch in the fabric [...]
Jagged Thoughts #5: Get Back to Work Poet!
Well its nice to know I messed it up again. Every time I start transitioning back from monkey to man The only time I feel alive, inside is with paper and [...]
Jagged Thoughts #4: This Boat is taking on Water- A Fairy Tale
I wake up on a boat. Put coffee in the cup. Power on the record player on the needle, the electric relaxation just happens… And I start to spin as the [...]
Jagged Thoughts #3: Missing Dad
I miss my dad I need to talk to him again I realize life is short And good times we've had In the past Maybe I'll call him Update him on [...]
A Kick in the Teeth by Rachael Ieszenberg
Everything in this room is movable Except for the pit in my stomach And I sit there wondering what if If you hadn’t met her Her with those blue eyes And [...]
Jagged Thought #2: Stuck
Stuck in the mud I'm stuck In the mud Not dumb but wish I Could be someone Realistically Statistically Idiocy is my History Where Nothing matters But whatever I'm writing sentences [...]
Jagged Thoughts #1: The “3” Tattoo
The "3" Tattoo Jason Wright I have portraits in my memory I thought I could always hold on to. I guess it’s not a single person I am writing to, but [...]
Roses are Red Violets are Blue by Jason Wright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIsPjQPTPjE&feature=youtu.be So a lot of people don't get poetry this poem is for them... Roses are red, Violets are blue This is the beginning of a poem You've known since childhood [...]
Salem Poetry Trials by Jason Wright
Witches are stupid Poets kind of are like witches We all stick to our covens Our cauldrons Our magic wand But I couldn't get down with witches Back in Salem When [...]
Prove it by Jason Wright
How do I prove that I belong on the mic with all of you? Alright let me try Well been writing nearly half my life through times of strife and lows [...]
Boston Strong (the heartbeat of the City) by JSN WRT
It reeks like good bud on the train today No other way to finish a shitty day Getting a contact high in the spot I'm standing Writing a week after the [...]
A Writers Job by Jason Wright ( Marathon Monday, Boston MA 2013)
Everyone expects writers to write about tragedy when it strikes, you know? Let the newspaper do that Let writers give you an escape, from all that. That’s my job. I [...]
the difference (the good side of me) by JSN WRT [poem 10 1/2]
O.k, you heard me earlier on the train acting insane, filling the pen with rage now I got the hiccups, and thinking of all the shit I said and I calm [...]
April 8th Eggs Day 8 by JSNWRT
Writing the art of Walking in slow motion While everyone flys past you You prove yourself as a distance That they can't get to You are a star a bright constellation [...]