Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an American poet, playwright, and novelist based in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Jackson became the Illinois Poet Laureate in 2020.[2]

For the British historian, see Angela Jackson (writer).

Life

Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the fifth of nine children,[3] but grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where her father, George Jackson, Sr, and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson, moved. [3]

Jackson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.[4]

Education

In 1977, she graduated from Northwestern University, where she won an Academy of American Poets Award, and the University of Chicago with an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean studies.[3] Her novels Where I Must Go and Roads, Where There Are No Roads were inspired by her experiences at Northwestern.

Career

She joined the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) with young black writers such as Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Carolyn Rodgers, Sterling Plumpp,[5] and was editor of the journal Nommo.[6]

Awards

Works

Poetry
  • "VooDoo/Love Magic", Poetry Foundation
  • Voodoo Love Magic. Third World Press. 1974.
  • The Greenville Club, 1977 (chapbook)
  • Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E. Oba House. 1985. ISBN 978-0-933653-01-6.
  • The Man with the White Liver. Illustrator Melora Walters. Contact II Publications. 1987. ISBN 978-0-936556-16-1.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners. Northwestern University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8101-5001-0.
  • And All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems New and Selected. Northwestern University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8101-5076-8.

Plays

Novels

Memoir
  • Apprenticeship in the House of Cowrie Shells

Anthologies

References
  1. "Angela Jackson". Mississippi Writers and Musicians. February 4, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2009.
  2. "Angela Jackson to Serve as Fifth Illinois Poet Laureate". www2.illinois.gov. State of Illinois. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  3. Angela Jackson biography at Poetry Foundation.
  4. William L. Andrews; Frances Smith Foster; Trudier Harris, eds. (2001). The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513883-2.
  5. Richard Friedman; Peter Kostakis; Darlene Pearlstein, eds. (1976). 15 Chicago Poets. Yellow Press. ISBN 978-0-916328-04-7.
  6. "The Eighth Kent Conrad Rivers Award", Black World, July 1973, p. 49.
  7. American Booksellers Association (2013). "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2012]". BookWeb. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013. 1985 ... Solo in the Box Car, Third Floor E ... 2008 ... Where I Must Go: A Novel (TriQuarterly)
  8. "Poetry Society of America Awards for 2002". Poetry Society of America. July 27, 2004. Archived from the original on June 16, 2002.
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