ReviewS
Red Hook Star Review reviews Ascend Ascend LP
The Boston Globe review Ascend Ascend LP
Iowa Review reviews Ascend Ascend
Speculative Arts Research reviews Ascend Ascend
Tarpaulin Sky reviews Ascend Ascend
West Branch reviews Ascend Ascend
Church Militant on the Ascend Ascend tour … Charges of blasphemy are the sincerest forms of flattery
The Boston Globe reviews Ascend Ascend
It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine reviews Ascend Ascend
The Kenyon Review reviews The Truth Is We Are Perfect
Publishers Weekly reviews The Truth Is We Are Perfect
Phantasmaphile reviews The Truth Is We Are Perfect
Denver Examiner reviews The Truth Is We Are Perfect
apt magazine reviews The World Will Deny It For You
Denver Examiner reviews The World Will Deny It For You
The Fiddleback reviews The World Will Deny It For You
Blood Lotus Journal reviews The World Will Deny It For You
Essays
LitHub: “Poetry, Like Witchcraft and Magick, is an Act of Transformation”
Poetry Foundation: “How to Survive in the Age of Amazon”
Interviews
July 2023. Talkhouse: “Dylan Desmond (Bell Witch) and Janaka Stucky Are Going Off Script” Discussing collaboration, improvisation, Rimbaud, and the hunger for otherworldly experiences
May 2023. Boston Globe: “The Heavy Metal Mysticism of Janaka Stucky”
May 2023. Aquarium Drunkard Transmission Podcast: On the release of the Ascend Ascend LP
November 2022. The Creative Independent: “On using ritual to guide your work”
August 2019. BOMB Magazine: “Radical Worship: Janaka Stucky Interviewed by Zach Savich—On the poetics of mysticism, spirituality, and the maximalist approach to religious language”
July 2019. Tupelo Quarterly: “The poem becomes the vessel for mystical experience”: A Conversation with Janaka Stucky
June 2019. VICE: “Janaka Stucky Brings a Doom-Metal Mysticism to His Poetry Readings”
June 2019. Occulture podcast, episode #132 “Ecstatic Poetry, Jewish Mysticism, Destruction of the Self & the Magic of Performance”
May 2019. Vol. 1 Brooklyn: “Occult Influences and Trance States: Janaka Stucky’s Singular Poetry”
May 2019. Michigan Quarterly Review: “Fueling Up on Rice & Beans & Poetry: An Interview with Janaka Stucky of Black Ocean Press”
April 2019. Expanding Mind podcast, episode #391 “Feral Poetics”
April 2019. The Witch Wave podcast, episode #31 “Janaka Stucky, occult poet”
April 2019. Jewish Boston’s Vibe of the Tribe podcast, episode 67 “Poetry, Kabbalah and Ascension”
April 2019. Kenyon Review: “Publisher Spotlight: Janaka Stucky of Black Ocean”
March 2017. The Scout "Actually, You Can Judge a Book By Its Cover"
June 2016. THE BELIEVER: “A Conversation on the Occult Practices in the Arts”
May 2016. Best American Poetry
December 2015. Entropy Magazine
May 2015. OTHERPPL podcast
May 2015. Write On! radio interview for KFAI (Minneapolis / St. Paul)
May 2015. Words On a Wire radio interview for KTEP (El Paso)
April 2015. Poetry Society of America: In Their Own Words spotlight
April 2015. Writer’s Bone: Breath and Silence: Poet Janaka Stucky On Striving for the Apex of His Art
April 2015. Largehearted Boy: Book Notes
April 2015. MassPoetry: Poet in the Spotlight
September 2012. Hellbound interview about graphic novel
September 2012. Savannah Morning News
July 2012. Blood Lotus Journal
June 2012. Ploughshares
May 2012. Monkeybicycle
February 2011. Boston’s Weekly Dig
September 2010. Mini Q&A for the Cousins Reading series
Spring 2010. Boston University’s Clarion
June 2009. Denver Examiner
April 2008. Radio interview for The Art Agenda on 88.1 fm, WESU
October 2005. Featured article in The Boston Phoenix