Jordan Tyler Temchack
Jordan Tyler Temchack wears many hats, some of the most pertinent include: artist, environmentalist, musician, composer, librettist, poet, folklorist, writer, producer, and audio engineer.
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.
Book, Rumble & Scream: Post-Industrial Sounds in Pennsylkrainia—Act I Libretto, Red Flag Poetry (NOW AVAILABLE!)
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
2025: featured performer for Ukraine at Colerain - A Pennsylkrainian Festival.
2025: featured performer and panelist at Upstate Arts Weekend in Narrowsburg, NY.
2025: receive DVAA grant, sponsored by Damascus Citizens for Sustainability and Ohio Valley Allies, to produce an album focused on raising awareness about the fracking industry and conserving our environmental resources (land, water, air).
2025: Rumble & Scream featured at Red Branch Review Art Festival, at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, TN.
2024: Oak Ledge Writing Contest finalist, receive a weeklong, self-directed writing residency at the Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, KY.
2023: Rumble & Scream debut select material at the 37th Annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Mountain Arts Festival in Whitesburg, KY.
2022: receive Appal Seed Fund Grant, sponsored by Appalshop’s WMMT 88.7 FM to produce an audio version of the folk-rock opera “Rumble & Scream: Post-Industrial Sounds in Pennsylkrainia.”
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