john jajeh
Howdy-do! I'm John, and above all, I’m a writer.In 2025, I launched The Long Knuckle, an online publication focused on niche insights, cultural musings, and prickly humor. Outside of that, I make the occasional zine and operate The Love Pomes, a music blog dedicated to fruit-named bands.Linked in the work section is my portfolio, which includes 40+ pieces published across 10+ various publications and ranges widely from poetry and think-pieces to interviews and compilations.In 2021, I was nominated for Sundress Publications’s 2021 Best of the Net Award, and between 2018 and 2020, I served as Editor-in-Chief of North Avenue Review, a Georgia Tech publication.To reach out, please use the contact form!
work
articlesTo the Window… To the Wall: Why Modern Interior Design Sucks Today (The Long Knuckle – Online, 2/17/25)Applying Structure to Your Rock Band Using Agile Scrum (Medium – Online, 4/10/24)Parallels Between the Tao Te Ching and Product Management (Medium – Online, 2/14/24)Anti-Symbol Symbolism (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, September 2021)The Underdog (The Atlanta Archivist – Online, Fall 2020)Who Is Mary-Pat Hector? (The Atlanta Archivist – Online, Fall 2020)Featured Peacemaker: Mary-Pat Hector (The Atlanta Archivist – Online, Fall 2020)Quixotic Motivations (North Avenue Review – Online, Fall 2020)My Freedom of Speech (North Avenue Review – Online, Fall 2020)Mushi Ni Atlanta (The Atlanta Archivist – Online, Spring 2020)Soy Sauce, Tea, Blood, & Urine (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, Spring 2020)Boy Genius (North Avenue Review – Online, 2020)Amateurs (North Avenue Review – Print & Print, Fall 2019)Anti-Music Music (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, Fall 2018)
compilationsOffensive Band Names and What I Think About Their Music, Part 1: The "Political" Edition (The Long Knuckle – Online, 3/17/25)Same Circus, Different Clowns: Nothing Has Changed Since Hunter S. Thompson's '72 Campaign Coverage (The Long Knuckle – Online, 1/20/25)A Text Message Filibuster (North Avenue Review – Print & Print, September 2021)Discussions from a Discord Server (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, Spring 2020)Best of Urban Dictionary (North Avenue Review – Online, 2020)The (Updated) Tech Dictionary (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, Winter 2019)
features“Drown” poem was featured in “Why I Read the Slush Pile” by Peter Brown (North Dakota Quarterly – Print, Spring/Summer 2024)
interviewsWhat’s the Deal With Airline Food? An Interview With a Flight Attendant (The Long Knuckle – Online, 3/31/25)Reflections of an Apartheid (North Avenue Review – Online, Fall 2020)“Super Lowkey” Foreword (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, Fall 2018)
poetryDistance (Refractions by iō Literary Journal – Online, 7/11/22)Grey Oms (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, 1/18/2022)Untitled #1-5 Landays, Untitled #6-10 Landays, & Untitled #11-15 Landays (Free Library of the Internet Void – Online, 10/19/21)The Mind’s Movement (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, September 2021)Untitled #16-25 Landays (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, September 2021)Blinking (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, September 2021)Bleaksome – Contemporary Landays (Unstamatic Magazine – Online, 5/1/21), Sundress Publications’s 2021 Best of the Net Award NomineePuberty (Runestone Journal – Online, 2/12/21)Winter (Erato – Online, November 2020)Grin (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, Winter 2019)Redshift (North Avenue Review – Print & Online, Winter 2019)You (Peregrine Journal – Print, Fall 2019)These Agoraphobic Sweaters (Free Library of the Internet Void – Online, June 2019)Misery (Zaum XS – Online, Spring 2019)Smile (Zaum XS – Online, Spring 2019)More Rose (Erato – Print, 2018/19)Galaxy of the Sublime (A Sestina) (Dark River Review – Online, 2018)
satireWhat Your Choice of Escapism Says About You (The Long Knuckle – Online, 3/3/25)101 Ways to Avoid Talking About the Weather (The Long Knuckle – Online, 2/3/25)
zinesWhat We Hate About People: A Zine of Annoyances (co-authored – Print, January 2025)Romance and Pain (Print, June 2024)Pigeons Rising (co-authored – Print, January 2023)