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.

  • Integrity

    Integrity will kill you. Integrity will keep you awake at night. It will haunt you during the day, and chill your bones at random times. It will make you stop, and think, and think, and think, and think… Integrity will knaw at your stomach like a tapeworm. It will chew you up and spit you Read.