Gary Jackson (poet)

Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collection Missing You, Metropolis, which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the College of Charleston and serves as Associate Poetry Editor of Crazyhorse. He is featured on 2013’s New American Poets by the Poetry Society of America, and his poems have appeared in Callaloo, Tin House, 32 Poems, Crab Orchard Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. He’s also published in Shattered: The Asian-American Comics Anthology, and is the recipient of both a Cave Canem and Bread Loaf fellowship.

Gary Jackson, born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, received a Bachelor’s in English from Washburn University in 2004. And graduated from the University of New Mexico with an MFA in 2008. He lived and taught in South Korea for one year before returning to New Mexico. He then received his post at the College of Charleston in 2013.

• Missing You, Metropolis, Graywolf Press, 2009

• Jackson, Gary (2009). Missing You, Metropolis. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-572-2. 

• “Luke Cage Tells It Like It is.” The Seagull Reader: Poems. Edited by Joseph Kelly. Published by W.W. Norton, 2015.
• “Things My Father Said” (Short Story). Roadside Curiosities: Stories About American Pop Culture. Edited by Shannon Cain. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2014.
• “Astro Boy Blues.” Multiverse! An Anthology of Superhero Poetry of Superhuman Proportions. Edited by Rob Sturma and Ryk Mcintyre. Published by Write Bloody Publishing, 2014.
• “Superia’s Swan Song,” “Old Lions,” and “Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is.” Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books. Edited by Bryan D. Dietrich and Marta Ferguson. Published by Minor Arcana Press, Spring 2014.
• “Persons of Mass Destruction” (Comic Book). Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology (Secret Identities). Edited by Keith Chow, et al. Published by The New Press, November 2012.
• Afterword and “Elegy for Gwen Stacy.” Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man. Edited by Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner. Published by McFarland Publishing, May 2012.

• "The Seagull Reader: Poems". 

• Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury College. Aug. 2012.
• Cave Canem Retreat Fellowship. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. June 2012.
• Missing You, Metropolis. Winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa.