GLJ--Writings
GARY LEE JOYNER'S WRITING C.V.
• 1985-present Freelance professional music journalism. Regular feature writer to Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Teacher, and Play Guitar magazines. (Multiple reprints by String Letter Publishing in guitar anthologies.) Columnist for Guitarist (Minnesota Guitar Society). Other publications include Fingerstyle Guitar, Pacific Sun, Sound Choice, and Hot Ticket.
• 1972-present Creator and performer of spoken word and experimental theater pieces
• 2002, 2003 Performance poetry with original guitar music at the Spoken Fringe, part of the Fringe Festival
• 1999-2005 Columnist for The Volunteer Voice, Guthrie Theater, Mpls.
• 1999-2002 Creative writing teacher, The Loft, Minneapolis. (Performance, songwriting, monologue writing, review writing.)
• 1998 Judge, Zeitgeist Songwriting Contest, St. Paul
• 1997 Winner, Zeitgeist Songwriting Contest, St. Paul.
• 1990 Judge in Bay Guardian Playwriting Contest, San Francisco.
• 1989-1990 Script reader/analyst for Berkeley Repertory Theater.
• 1985 Winner in the Kenneth Patchen Picture-Poetry Contest (San Francisco Poetry Film Workshop).
I Have Crept
GLJ poetry.
Mr. and Mrs. Filigree
Some call it prose poetry. Some forget about categories and simply dig in.
GLJ Writing Essentials
Quiet proposals and insinuations whispered directly in your ear. (“It is up to me not to go overboard, not to believe that I alone am wiser than everybody. It is up to me not to change sentiments, but to distrust mine. That is all I can do; and that is what I do. … If I sometimes adopt an assertive tone it is not for the sake of making an impression on the reader but for the sake of speaking to him as I think. … …although I do not wish to be obstinate in defending my ideas, I nonetheless believe that it is my obligation to propose them…” Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Twenty-Three Interchangeable Sketches Toward a Portrait of Michael Yonkers
GLJ: “Michael Yonkers and I have been friends and erstwhile cohorts for 36 years. This memoir was initially intended to be liner notes for the 2007 CD release of his 1970s album, Grimwood. It quickly took on a life of its own, too large for the limited CD packaging context. Now you can read it.”