JH PHRYDAS

JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com JH PHRYDAS Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:16:18 +0000 https://jhphrydas.com en Home https://jhphrydas.com/Home Thu, 05 May 2022 17:55:11 +0000 JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com/Home JH Phrydas Author & Ghostwriter Hello. I am a poet, nonfiction writer, and ghostwriter. To learn more about my work, see index. To contact me for services, select here. Bio https://jhphrydas.com/Bio Thu, 05 May 2022 17:55:11 +0000 JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com/Bio JH Phrydas Bio <img width="1939" height="2141" width_o="1939" height_o="2141" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ec4b7139f292cfc570df54350e64018323afb067ba1d55df0e290fd3d675ece/IMG_2056.jpg" data-mid="163436858" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ec4b7139f292cfc570df54350e64018323afb067ba1d55df0e290fd3d675ece/IMG_2056.jpg" /> Hello, my name is Jason Phrydas, and I am a queer poet, nonfiction writer, and ghostwriter. Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, I studied literature and theory with Lyn Hejinian at UC Berkeley and writing and poetics with Bhanu Kapil at Naropa University. I have published numerous essays on and offline, including in Entropy, Fact-Simile, Aufgabe, and Los Angeles Review of Books. My publications include Levitations (Timeless, Infinite Light / Nightboat Books, 2015), Empire in Shade (Essay Press, 2017), and Imperial Physique (Punctum Books, 2019). Over the past decade, I have worked as a teacher, copywriter, managing editor, and content producer for universities, poetry magazines, startups, and nonprofits. My interests lie in interview-based research, queer world-building, and long-form storytelling. Most recently, I wrote a biography of a queer underground artist in San Francisco and ghostwrote a rags-to-riches memoir of a Punjabi businessman in Dallas. My work has been supported by Sewanee Writers' Conference (2022), Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Science (2023), and Monson Arts (2024). I am currently working on an anti-memoir on men, love, and God. I split time between Echo Park, LA and Greenpoint, BK. <img width="2381" height="1846" width_o="2381" height_o="1846" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e5b79adb9556ec9ddc810a2a90bedd326f40b7beeec824bfbf453f639d2008b/Chimera.png" data-mid="142086588" border="0" data-scale="10" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e5b79adb9556ec9ddc810a2a90bedd326f40b7beeec824bfbf453f639d2008b/Chimera.png" /> Books https://jhphrydas.com/Books Thu, 05 May 2022 17:55:12 +0000 JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com/Books JH PhrydasBOOKS <img width="1212" height="1940" width_o="1212" height_o="1940" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a034e383e1d020b0fb3c0fe548501d5099e4268b0010487186430dcfca7a179a/IP-Cover.jpg" data-mid="141774910" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a034e383e1d020b0fb3c0fe548501d5099e4268b0010487186430dcfca7a179a/IP-Cover.jpg" />Imperial Physique Punctum Books 2019 <img width="1500" height="2318" width_o="1500" height_o="2318" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9ceca0f22d7d9b3c0a62a3e9d1d652547ee7d292e5514da3aba434c007990b8/EmpireInShade1.png" data-mid="141775486" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9ceca0f22d7d9b3c0a62a3e9d1d652547ee7d292e5514da3aba434c007990b8/EmpireInShade1.png" /> Empire in ShadeEssay Press2017 <img width="1446" height="2386" width_o="1446" height_o="2386" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fda0645751c489307c1be88b1658cee3897e7317ba1b3108c66a279f89cf89ba/LevitationsCover.jpeg" data-mid="141775446" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fda0645751c489307c1be88b1658cee3897e7317ba1b3108c66a279f89cf89ba/LevitationsCover.jpeg" /> Levitations Timeless, Infinite Light / Nightboat Books2015 Essays https://jhphrydas.com/Essays-1 Thu, 05 May 2022 17:55:13 +0000 JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com/Essays-1 JH PhrydasESSAYS The Dread / Los Angeles Review of Books / 2019 Notes on Theory, the Body, and Evil / Radio: 11.8.16 / Essay Press / 2016 Empathetics: A Somatic Approach / Jacket2 Magazine / 2016  Somatics & Experimental Prose / Aufgabe 13 / Litmus Press /  2014 Architextural Attunement / MFA Lecture / Naropa U. / 2014 Reviews https://jhphrydas.com/Reviews-1 Thu, 05 May 2022 17:55:13 +0000 JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com/Reviews-1 JH PhrydasREVIEWS Embraces Against Empire: Review of JH Phrydas’ Levitations by Jacob Bolda / Medium / 2017 We Queers, Powered: Levitations by JH Phrydas by M. Ryan Murphy / Entropy Magazine / 2017 Interviews https://jhphrydas.com/Interviews-3 Thu, 05 May 2022 18:35:58 +0000 JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com/Interviews-3 JH Phrydas INTERVIEWS You Make Me Feel #11: JH Phrydas by Gina Abelkop / Entropy Magazine / 2015 The Write Stuff: JH Phrydas by Evan Karp / SF Weekly / 2015 Ghostwriting https://jhphrydas.com/Ghostwriting Thu, 05 May 2022 18:53:04 +0000 JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com/Ghostwriting JH PhrydasGHOSTWRITING I am a professional ghostwriter for hire. Inquire here for rates and sample work.  Clay https://jhphrydas.com/Clay Thu, 05 May 2022 18:54:31 +0000 JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com/Clay JH PhrydasCLAY For the past decade, I have worked with clay as an entry point to writing. I have led clay and writing workshops at CalArts, Naropa U., and local art galleries in Los Angeles.  I first touched clay in my godmother’s ceramic studio in her house in Atlanta, GA. Whenever I write, I find myself back in that stone basement, the cold walls and cold clay that slowly warmed in my hands. But it wasn’t until grad school when I met and worked with Bhanu Kapil that the connection between writing and clay took form. Bhanu and I co-taught a clay and writing workshop where writers created a divinatory form in clay which we then walked to a local creek and submerged underwater. Creation and disintegration was a rhythm we felt with our hands. I wrote:  I’m still processing life. Turning my back on it, the images and sounds and skin-sensations open, shed their associations with commerce and culture and pulse within an inner rhythm that matches my own. In between these in-tune and out-of-tune frequencies are the threads that make up story, unwoven. They can weave a thousand different patterns with the same threads. In an infinity, the coalescing force is daunting, hidden. It emerges within the chaos, makes itself known. But how? Through thought? But I distrust my thoughts as they lean back towards life, towards commerce and culture. One way it does so is to bypass thought. That way is through claywork.  I explored this process and shared it with others. I began incorporating the work of somatic psychologists and ceramicists into my practice. I let working with clay, with my eyes closed, letting my hands work out forms unconscious, embodied, show me the way. Sometimes, I open my eyes and see a wound. Other times, I open my eyes and see a forest. There are the symbols that guide my writing practice. This is a type of earth-divination.  Michael Franklin, a ceramicist in Colorado, writes about how, when making a series of clay bowls over a few months, an unusual object began to appear. An accomplished and skilled artist, he couldn’t understand that strange, lumpish, alien form that grew in each successive work. Soon after, he was diagnosed with cancer. His body already knew this fact; his mind did not. The claywork, however, told him the news of this growth within him before the doctors did with their scans and supertechnologies. He calls this a “longitudinal embodied narrative.” One that emerges through intense attention to clay. Through feeling through a story as well as thinking through a story.  My workshops, and my own practice with clay, opens into the space of longitudinal embodied narration. What can working with clay open up within us that is usually withheld from our conscious selves? How can we attune to our nervous systems, ancestral knowledge, and body wisdoms and write within a language that was taught to us by institutions and policed by hierarchies of power?  My answer is: by means of clay.  For inquiries into bringing me into your classroom, gallery, or writer’s workshop, contact me here.  <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b81fcc517d61619ac4873a7511267ace1872c48a4d1ec1222157af3ea8101ba/IMG_0965.jpg" data-mid="142011800" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b81fcc517d61619ac4873a7511267ace1872c48a4d1ec1222157af3ea8101ba/IMG_0965.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1250" width_o="1000" height_o="1250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5092260215220a73dda5e56c319ec20de112918d64f72822be462b072f530ba4/clay-calarts.jpeg" data-mid="141780636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5092260215220a73dda5e56c319ec20de112918d64f72822be462b072f530ba4/clay-calarts.jpeg" /> <img width="1600" height="1280" width_o="1600" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e587126d6ae719e71a8930a03351ebbe0121c28e9304eec5679f4ef888c097d/mixing_clay_7-727219.JPG" data-mid="141780674" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e587126d6ae719e71a8930a03351ebbe0121c28e9304eec5679f4ef888c097d/mixing_clay_7-727219.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/058cef1e6a250657e749123681b1fc1d2c3e3ecab2c66c3fe4c30c1673d54683/IMG_0966.jpg" data-mid="142011801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/058cef1e6a250657e749123681b1fc1d2c3e3ecab2c66c3fe4c30c1673d54683/IMG_0966.jpg" /> Portfolio https://jhphrydas.com/Portfolio Thu, 13 Jun 2019 04:32:56 +0000 JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com/Portfolio JH Phrydas GHOSTWRITING PORTFOLIO The Dallas Project The San Francisco Project Portfolio2 https://jhphrydas.com/Portfolio2 Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:16:18 +0000 JH PHRYDAS https://jhphrydas.com/Portfolio2 Jason Phrydas PORTFOLIO Editorial Mal de Ojo (for ENDPAIN) Raising Innocents (for ENDPAIN) Yellow (for ENDPAIN) Phytotheca (for CC Grow, Inc) Copywriting MATSUDA creative copy         ENDPAIN website         ENDPAIN call for submissions         LONDUBH STUDIO website Personal Essay         THE DREAD for the Los Angeles Review of Books Ghostwriting The Dallas Project (for private client) The San Francisco Project (for private client)