Gary Jackson
Gary Jackson is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh, and the director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. His latest poetry collection is small lives.
Poetry
Pinkie Masters
A good scare can cure anything, she says. / We nod, and I thank her but insist / on holding my breath all night.
December 2025
Poetry
After The Reading
a woman walked up and asked how / the young black poet the month before / could shake with such anger during / his reading. Is it really / that bad? It can’t be that bad, / can it?
February 2020
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