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.

  • 2011, a poem (part 1 of 10)

    This is the first installment in a series of ten poems summarizing the previous decade. 2011 Let me take youback to a timewhen flip phonesweren’t passe,when Obamawas still considereda “progressive”,when Party Rockanthems and electricdaisies bukaketo Lisa Ann on Twitterinstead of beggingfor big mommy milkerson TikTok.Back to a timewhen “we got ’em!”and despite what thesketch comedy Read.