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'''Angela Jackson''' (born July 25, 1951) is an American [[poet]], playwright, and novelist based in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Angela Jackson|url=http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/angela-jackson.html|publisher=Mississippi Writers and Musicians|date=February 4, 2008|accessdate=June 30, 2009}}</ref> Jackson became the Illinois Poet Laureate in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Angela Jackson to Serve as Fifth Illinois Poet Laureate |url=https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/poetlaureate/Pages/default.aspx |website=www2.illinois.gov |publisher=State of Illinois |access-date=29 November 2020}}</ref> |
'''Angela Jackson''' (born July 25, 1951) is an American [[poet]], playwright, and novelist based in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Angela Jackson|url=http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/angela-jackson.html|publisher=Mississippi Writers and Musicians|date=February 4, 2008|accessdate=June 30, 2009|archive-date=October 10, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010192550/http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/angela-jackson.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jackson became the Illinois Poet Laureate in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Angela Jackson to Serve as Fifth Illinois Poet Laureate |url=https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/poetlaureate/Pages/default.aspx |website=www2.illinois.gov |publisher=State of Illinois |access-date=29 November 2020}}</ref> |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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* ''Witness!'', 1970 |
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* ''Shango Diaspora: An African American Myth of Womanhood and Love'', 1980 |
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* {{cite book| title=Comfort Stew| year=1984| url=https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/comfort-stew| publisher=[[Northwestern University Press]]| isbn=978-0-8101-4117-9}} Also known as ''When the Wind Blows'' |
* {{cite book| title=Comfort Stew| year=1984| url=https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/comfort-stew| publisher=[[Northwestern University Press]]| isbn=978-0-8101-4117-9| access-date=2020-12-12| archive-date=2020-09-30| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930060348/https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/comfort-stew| url-status=dead}} Also known as ''When the Wind Blows'' |
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* ''Lightfoot: The Crystal Stair'' |
* ''Lightfoot: The Crystal Stair'' |
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===Novels=== |
===Novels=== |
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* ''Treemont Stone'' |
* ''Treemont Stone'' |
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* {{cite book| title=Where I Must Go| year=2009| url=https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/where-i-must-go| publisher=[[Northwestern University Press]]| isbn=978-0-8101-5185-7}} [[American Book Award]] |
* {{cite book| title=Where I Must Go| year=2009| url=https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/where-i-must-go| publisher=[[Northwestern University Press]]| isbn=978-0-8101-5185-7| access-date=2020-12-12| archive-date=2020-11-25| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125001145/https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/where-i-must-go| url-status=dead}} [[American Book Award]] |
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* {{cite book| title=Roads, Where There Are No Roads| year=2017| url=https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/roads-where-there-are-no-roads| publisher=[[Northwestern University Press]]| isbn=978-0-8101-3472-0 }} |
* {{cite book| title=Roads, Where There Are No Roads| year=2017| url=https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/roads-where-there-are-no-roads| publisher=[[Northwestern University Press]]| isbn=978-0-8101-3472-0| access-date=2020-12-12| archive-date=2021-01-21| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121075333/https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/roads-where-there-are-no-roads| url-status=dead}} |
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===Memoir=== |
===Memoir=== |
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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 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.[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]
Personal life
Jackson is Catholic.[7]
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[8]
- 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[9]
- 2008: American Book Award[8]
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 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2020-12-12. 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 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2020-12-12. American Book Award
- Roads, Where There Are No Roads. Northwestern University Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0-8101-3472-0. Archived from the original on 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
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 29 November 2020.
- ^ a b c Angela Jackson biography at Poetry Foundation.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Eighth Kent Conrad Rivers Award", Black World, July 1973, p. 49.
- ^ Duriga, Joyce. "Catholic faith a touchstone for Illinois poet laureate". Chicago Catholic. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
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: 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 (Aug 1985). "Word Wizard". Ebony Jr. Magazine.
- 1951 births
- Living people
- Northwestern University alumni
- University of Chicago alumni
- People from Greenville, Mississippi
- Poets from Illinois
- 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
- African-American Catholics
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century African-American women writers
- 20th-century African-American writers
- 21st-century African-American women writers
- 21st-century African-American writers