Mongo

Wess Mongo Jolley is an expatriate American novelist, editor, poet and poetry promoter living in Montreal. He is Founder and Executive Director of the Performance Poetry Preservation Project, and is most well known for hosting the IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel podcast for more than ten years.

As a poet, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Off The Coast, PANK, The New Verse News, Danse Macabre, The November 3rd Club, The Legendary, decomP, Dressing Room Poetry Journal, RFD, TreeHouse Arts, Warrior Poets; and in collections such as the Write Bloody Press book The Good Things About America.

After a quarter century living on 60 acres of rural Vermont, he now writes and freelance edits full time from his balcony overlooking rush hour traffic in Montreal; a gorgeous, dirty, gritty, artsy, ecstatic, appalling, and vibrant beast of a city, which he has come to love the way you love a good-hearted uncle with Tourette’s.

He can be contacted through his website at http://wessmongojolley.com

Mongo’s tracks

• The Last Handful of Clover (Book One: The Hereafter) — Prologue / Tree of Blood by Mongo