I’m a poet, etc

Select work: a chapbook via g l o s s; poems in Flag + Void, Poetry Project newsletter, Apogee, the Arkansas International, BOMB, TriQuarterly, midst, Poetry; collaborations with S*an D. Henry-Smith (1, 2, 3, 4); audio piece programmed by Janelle Ayana Miller

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Imani Elizabeth Jackson is a poet from Chicago. Her writings appear in Apogee, BOMB, TriQuarterly, Poetry, Triple Canopy, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Futurepoem’s 2020 Other Futures Award, the Arkansas International’s inaugural C.D. Wright Award (selected by Hanif Abdurraqib), and she has also received several awards from Brown University. She holds degrees from Brown and Reed College. Under the name mouthfeel, she co-authored the poetry-cookbook Consider the Tongue (2019) with S*an D. Henry-Smith; she also contributed to Francesca Capone’s Weaving Language: Lexicon (Essay Press, 2022). She is the author of the chapbook saltsitting (reissued by g l o s s, 2020) and her first book, Flag, is forthcoming from Futurepoem.

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Email: imaniejxn@gmail.com for a chat or any query
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