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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]
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
- 1973: Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award
- 1974: Academy of American Poets Award from Northwestern University
- 1979: Illinois Art Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction
- 1980: National Endowment For the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction
- 1984: Hoyt W. Fuller Award for Literary Excellence
- 1985: American Book Award[9]
- 1984: DuSable Museum Writers Seminar Poetry Prize
- 1984: Pushcart Prize for Poetry
- 1989: ETA Gala Award
- 1996: Illinois Authors Literary Heritage Award
- Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards
- five for fiction and one for poetry; The Carl Sandburg Award
- Chicago Sun-Times Friends of Literature Book of the Year Award
- 2000: Illinois Art Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Playwriting
- 2002: Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America[10]
- 2008: American Book Award[9]
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
- Treemont Stone
- Where I Must Go. Northwestern University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8101-5185-7. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020. American Book Award
- Roads, Where There Are No Roads. Northwestern University Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-8101-3472-0. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
Memoir
- Apprenticeship in the House of Cowrie Shells
Anthologies
- Pamela Gemin; Paula Sergi, eds. (1999). Boomer Girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2.
- Kalamu ya Salaam, ed. (1998). 360,̊ a revolution of Black poets. Black Words. ISBN 978-0-7394-1585-6.
References
- ^ "Angela Jackson". Mississippi Writers and Musicians. February 4, 2008. Archived from the original on October 10, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2009.
- ^ "Angela Jackson to Serve as Fifth Illinois Poet Laureate". www2.illinois.gov. State of Illinois. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Angela Jackson". Poetry Foundation. April 29, 2023. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
- ^ "Angela Jackson named new Illinois poet laureate: 'I want to awaken the poets'". Chicago Sun-Times. November 26, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Richard Friedman; Peter Kostakis; Darlene Pearlstein, eds. (1976). 15 Chicago Poets. Yellow Press. ISBN 978-0-916328-04-7.
- ^ "Perspectives: The Eighth Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Fund". Black World/Negro Digest. Johnson Publishing Company. July 1973. p. 49. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
- ^ Duriga, Joyce. "Catholic faith a touchstone for Illinois poet laureate". Chicago Catholic. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b 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)
- ^ "Poetry Society of America Awards for 2002". Poetry Society of America. July 27, 2004. Archived from the original on June 16, 2002.
External links
- Angela Jackson Bio from Illinois Poet Laureate
- Nora Brooks Blakely (August 1985). "Word Wizard". Ebony Jr. Magazine.
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- University of Chicago alumni
- People from Greenville, Mississippi
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- Poets Laureate of Illinois
- 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- American Book Award winners
- Novelists from Illinois
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- 21st-century African-American women writers
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