Web Designer Jason Wright is an ASU senior majoring in Creative Writing. He is also a self-taught web developer and currently helps maintain multiple websites originating around his hometown in Phoenix, Arizona. While finding balance between intricate expression through poetry and hard-coded website and computer manipulation, he flourishes when given the opportunity to utilize both. This is his second semester as an intern with Superstition Review.
1. What is your position with Superstition Review and what are your responsibilities?
As the Web Designer for Superstition Review, some of my responsibilities include maintaining the website, creating the basis for new issues, managing data, and editing/formatting contributions for publishing on the web.
2. Why did you decide to get involved with Superstition Review ?
I was the Poetry Editor last semester and thoroughly enjoyed it. The Web Design position seemed like a great fit for me, as well, because it gives me the opportunity to integrate my knowledge of web development with my love for literature.
3. How do you like to spend your free time?
I typically spend my free time teaching myself various computing languages, building computers/websites, gaming, or reading poetry by the fire with a glass of scotch (I’m missing the robe and cigar, I know).
4. What other position(s) for Superstition Review would you like to try out?
The Fiction or Non-Fiction Editor positions would be fun. Being able to read so many authors was a great perk of the Poetry Editor position and I feel it did great things to my experience as a poet.
5. Describe one of your favorite literary works.
Despite how long it’s taken me to get through it, Ovid’s Metamorphoses has been an enticing trip through Greek Mythology.
6. What are you currently reading?
I am currently reading a compilation of poems by E.E. Cummings.
7. Creatively, what are you currently working on?
Using Cummings’ playful relationship with syntax and punctuation as a basis for study, I’ve been working on incorporating thick punctuation as a means to articulate meaning in alternative ways within my poems.
8. What inspires you?
I’ve found that the most inspiring people in my life are those with passions so intense that they become consumed often with one singular hobby or idea.
9. What are you most proud of?
I am most proud of myself after I accomplish something I’ve invested an immense amount of time in.
10. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
All I hope for is that, in 10 years, I’ll be working a solid job, making decent money, and doing what I love.
