An Interview with Tim Kinsella

_{This interview with Tim Kinsella was conducted in the Spring of 2023 by Jet Fuel Review’s Poetry, Prose, & Blog Editor Samuel McFerron. This interview can also be accessed via Jet Fuel Review’s website.}

Photo by Kim Ambriz

Any time in which the various Chicago Music and Art scenes are brought into conversation, a few great artists are mentioned, and among these greats, is Tim Kinsella. As front-man for the bands Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc, OWLS, and a multitude of other projects, Kinsella continues to forge entirely new understandings of the limitless possibilities within music. Through raw power, dedication, and talent, Tim Kinsella creates spaces for art that bridge the gaps between our horizons of understanding and the inexhaustible experiences of life.

Tim’s most recent collaboration with his wife and fellow artist Jenny Pulse, Gimmie Altamont, further defies the very concepts of limitation. With my thanks to both Tim and Dr. Simone Muench, I was able to sit down and speak with Tim about his career, processes, and influences from Analphabetapolothology to 2022’s Gimmie Altamont.

Interview with Janice Tuck Lively

Janice Tuck Lively

This interview with Janice Tuck Lively was conducted during the Spring of 2017 by Jet Fuel Review Editor Bree Scott. 

Janice Tuck Lively was a visiting author at Lewis University in March 2017, alongside poet Elizabeth Powell. She read an excerpt from a story she had been working on at the time, including an emotionally intense passage about a mother supporting her child through childbirth.

I had the chance to catch up with Lively after the reading — I took a class of hers for one semester at Elmhurst College before transferring to Lewis University. To say that she had a hand increasing my interest in micro-fiction is an understatement, as I had strictly been a poet before meeting her for the first time.

Interview with Chicago-based Musician/Artist, Damon Locks

Damon Locks
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There are few people I can think of that carry as much ambition as Chicago-based artist Damon Locks. Locks is a talented musician, visual artist, and teacher, who, over the past 30 years, has used these various avenues as a way to unleash his politically-driven, urban-influenced art upon the world.

One of Locks’ latest projects is a new album, Espiritu Zombi, from his band The Eternals, which released in August 2016. Other recent works from Locks include multiple projects with and alongside prolific artist/musician Rob Mazurek, the sound design work on a Chicago-based play, and an art project wherein Locks worked with 11 prisoners currently incarcerated in Stateville Correctional Center, located in Crest Hill, Illinois. The prisoners were asked to draw 100 frames of animation, later to be compiled into a fascinating short film called Freedom/Time.

Below is Locks’ bio, followed by our interview with him: