Angela Jackson

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

This article is about Angela Jackson. For other uses, see Angela Jackson (disambiguation).
Angela Jackson
Born (1951-07-25) July 25, 1951
Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.
Education
Occupations
  • Poet
  • playwright
  • novelist

Biography

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 during the Great Migration.[3][4]

Jackson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.[5]

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 was a member of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) with young black writers such as Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Carolyn Rodgers, Sterling Plumpp,[6] and was editor of the journal Nommo.[7]

Personal life

Jackson is Catholic.[8]

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.{{cite book}}: 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
  • Witness!, 1970
  • Shango Diaspora: An African American Myth of Womanhood and Love, 1980
  • Comfort Stew. Northwestern University Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-8101-4117-9. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020. Also known as When the Wind Blows
  • Lightfoot: The Crystal Stair

Novels

Memoir
  • Apprenticeship in the House of Cowrie Shells

Anthologies

References
  1. "Angela Jackson". Mississippi Writers and Musicians. February 4, 2008. Archived from the original on October 10, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2009.
  2. "Angela Jackson to Serve as Fifth Illinois Poet Laureate". www2.illinois.gov. State of Illinois. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  3. "Angela Jackson". Poetry Foundation. April 29, 2023. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  4. "Angela Jackson named new Illinois poet laureate: 'I want to awaken the poets'". Chicago Sun-Times. November 26, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  5. 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.
  6. Richard Friedman; Peter Kostakis; Darlene Pearlstein, eds. (1976). 15 Chicago Poets. Yellow Press. ISBN 978-0-916328-04-7.
  7. "Perspectives: The Eighth Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Fund". Black World/Negro Digest. Johnson Publishing Company. July 1973. p. 49. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  8. Duriga, Joyce. "Catholic faith a touchstone for Illinois poet laureate". Chicago Catholic. Retrieved April 7, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. 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)
  10. "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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