Transgressions in Transubstantiation: The Mantras of Jameson Bayles

Provincetown is right on the tip of Cape Cod. Off season on the Cape is a second home to me. Vacant beaches, no tourists, and being surrounded by rude New Englanders just seems to appeal to me. In May, the Great White Sharks migrate north to go after the seals. There are warning signs on Read more

I have to admit, my only legitimate reference point for the city of Boston comes from TV: Cheers, the Celtics, the Red Sox. Two out of those three entities listed I absolutely cannot stand. I grew up a Lakes and Yankees fan so to say that I was a bit biased regarding the Boston area Read more

I have had an account on SoundCloud for a very long time, but I haven’t really done anything with it. This evening I recorded two tracks: “used to call it jail, used to call it home“, “searching for a voice“. In the future, I plan on recording additional tracks of my more recent work. Now Read more

It might have started with either the countless hours I spent as a child watching Sesame Street or staring at the W.B. Mason sign in left field at Yankee Stadium whenever the Bronx bombers were on TV, or the early Martin Scorsese films I used to be obsessed over, but I have always had a Read more

“The last time I had a reading in New Jersey was back in September of 2017. I shared the bill with a poet from the Kansas City area as well as two poets from Pittsburgh. The reading was at a public library that included an open mic. A common conundrum of any public reading is Read more

After a long internal debate, I’ve decided to revamp my author site (create a new one). A lot has transpired over the past 6 years. I’ve accepted the position of poetry director for the Rusted Straitjacket Unicycle Troop, a conglomerate of poets, musicians, and visual artists throughout the US. In addition, I’ve performed a variety Read more