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.

  • Forward March

    On we go, up the hill, steeper and steeper. Our breath growing short, our knees straining, our feet throbbing. And still, on we go. Step by step, we grow more winded. The hill becomes a mountain, the soreness is spreading, and still on we go. On we go, up the steep hill, step by step, Read.