Jason B. Crawford
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Summertime Fine 
Jason B Crawford's debut chapbook, Summertime Fine, winner of the 2020 Variant Literature chapbook contest.

The poems in Summertime Fine are built to live on the tongue. Full of block parties and Slurpee machines, cayenne and ribs—“like everyone’s daddy pulled one out they chest and slapped barbecue sauce on it”—the collection reminds us that what we taste, what we savor, we consume. “See, that was my childhood, understanding everything would be temporary,” it says, refusing elegy but unable to forget the exuberance of summers past, the joy in the alleys of American dread. By turns playful and deadly serious, Summertime Fine sniffs at immortality even as it recognizes how the body will betray us, or will be made to betray us, revealing “I don’t trust my own / blood either / That it won’t leave me if they / decide I am a building worth / opening.”                             
                                           —Ross White, Author of How We Came
                                                         Upon the Colony
 and The Polite Society

Summertime Fine is for purchase on the Variant Literature website.
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Other Work:

"Ode to Melissa Elliot" - FreezeRay Poetry

"PReP" - Flypaper Lit

"Unicorn Kidz Dance under the Moonlight, too" - Split Lip Magazine

"Gambit (for Chris Schrimscher)" - The Pointed Circle Pg. 24

"The High Fashion Gala says I cannot twerk here" - Glass Poetry

"Untitled 1 (Teagu)" - Route 7 Review

"Self Love #1" - Wellington Street Review

"Red Hat Society" - Gordon Square Review

"river" - Dovecote

"Boys and Dresses" - Royal Rose

"Notes on Cruising the rest stop off exit 187 at 11:45 pm" - Spilled Milk Magazine

"on Jukin wit a WhiteBoy" - Poached Hare

"The Birds: 2 poems; Song of the Vultures & Learning to write a poem" - Entropy

"Ode to the Soil" - Ghost City Press

"sonnet of the black boy turned ghost" - Barren Magazine

"Love Again" - High Shelf Press

"Look how many things we've turned to god" - Homology Lit

"tell the ghost" - Kissing Dynamite

"The City" - The Scrib

"Werewolves" - Nightingale & Sparrow

"The Chicken Spot" - Voicemail Poems

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