James J. Jackson

Poet and Journalist

  • About James / Donate to the Blog

    My name is James J. Jackson and I am a poet and pop culture journalist from Northern California. I’ve written over 600 articles covering politics, art, and pop culture as well as 2 books and hundreds of poems. I started this blog in 2014 under the title Poems and Other Sh*t, which later became The Read.

  • 10 Years And An Empty Bank Account – A poem for the ages

    10 Years and an empty bank account, Ai girlfriends, and virtual insanity is a real thing now. Tides continue to turn with the Earth, the moon, and the sun, they are our only constants now. Bukowski died to soon, so did Hemingway and his granddaughter. There are no heroes in the 2020s, only nuance and Read.