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.

  • Influencers in the Wild, poem

    Gimmicks and affectations are no replacements for personality and struggle. Bullies will still graduate and get jobs they don’t deserve. Your hero is a fraud, and their heroes were the villians. So what does that make you? You are more than what you say and type, but you are only what you do. Read.