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.

  • Ring True

    Talk is cheap, Mother Fucker! So are these words, lacking. Yet if we do not know them to be true is not their context irrelevant? Pointless? Even trifling? These wrongs you spit with no elegance, sadly, always ring true. Is not the vulgar as poignant as the subtle? Isn’t context important anymore? It may mean Read.