Jeremiah Anderson
J.W. Seaborn has been writing poetry and organizing spoken word poetry events in the Humboldt County area for nearly a decade. The Great Divide is his first album of spoken word performances accompanied by musical composition. In 2017, he received the Fuerza Award for Best Work in Spoken Word in the Toyon Journal of Literature and Art. His central motivations for writing and performing are the social critique of authority, personal improvement by way of self-reflection and progressing traditional perspectives on love, sexuality and masculinity. As a poet, he feels as though one must experience change to appreciate stability, endure suffering to find resolve, embrace humility to heal from anger. His style finds intensity without ambiguity. He pours over his own fragility and disappointment to look at some raw truth.