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.

  • Why A Poem Never Belongs to The Author

    Vengence, unguarded, has all but been abandoned. Anger, the burning coals the buddha talked about, drop them. See their sparks as they grind into the Earth, then darken into nothing. No time like the present, no fear but the accented. This is where I should always be, yet it means nothing when you stay stagnent. Read.