Jordan Tyler Temchack
Jordan Tyler Temchack wears many hats, some of the most pertinent include: artist, musician, composer, librettist, audio engineer, producer, poet, environmentalist, folklorist, and independent record label owner.
He is the creator of the folk-rock, fantasy opera, Rumble & Scream: Post-Industrial Sounds in Pennsylkrainia, and the co-founder of Holy Crick Records, LLC.
Publications
Jordan Tyler Temchack’s poetry, book reviews, and other musings have graciously been published by a number of fine literary outlets.
Please follow the links below to read more.
Poem, “Northern Dusky Salamander, A Prayer,” in A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia
Poem, “Jeremiah Scream,” in Red Branch Review
Book Review of Noah Davis’s Of This River, Still: The Journal
Poem, “American Meditation, no. 25,” in Press 53’s Prime Number Magazine
Three poems, “American Meditation, no. 8, 11, and 12,” in Northern Appalachia Review
Three poems, “With God, no. 1, 2, and 3,” in Passengers Journal
Honors
Jordan Tyler Temchack was awarded a 2022 Appal Seed Fund Grant, and sponsored by Appalshop’s WMMT 88.7 FM to produce an audio version of his folk-rock opera “Rumble & Scream: Post-Industrial Sounds in Pennsylkrainia.”
In June 2023, Rumble & Scream debuted select material at the 37th Annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Mountain Arts Festival in Whitesburg, KY.
A finalist in the 2024 Oak Ledge Writing Contest, Temchack attended a weeklong, self-directed writing residency at the Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, KY.
with no end to desire less is better
with limited time why be greedy
this old monk doesn’t mean to cause trouble
he just wants people to let go
—The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse, poem 11, translation by Red Pine