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Gary Jackson is the author of Missing You, Metropolis (2010), which was the winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and origin story (2021). He’s also coeditor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair, 2021).
Gary Jackson is an American educator and poet. He had received a Cave Canem and Bread Loaf fellowship and was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize in 2009. [1]
"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" is an R&B song written by Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, and Carl Smith. It was recorded by Jackie Wilson for his album Higher and Higher (1967), produced by Carl Davis, and became a Top 10 pop and number one R&B hit.
Gary Jackson is the author of Missing You, Metropolis (Graywolf Press, 2010), which was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He teaches in the MFA program at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
“Gary Jackson’s origin story is a powerful meditation on how we return to and turn away from our beginnings. These exquisite poems search out the source of belonging, whether to people or place. Jackson deftly shows us what can happen when fracture begets connection and erasure becomes revelation.
Gary Jackson is the winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for his first book, Missing You, Metropolis. He was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, and received his Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of New Mexico and has taught in Albuquerque and in Anyang, South Korea.
Gary Jackson. Still dark, my baby girl leaps out. the window to greet the rising sun. I stand below ready to catch her, but every time she takes off. without fail, her laughter calling. to the orioles, calling.
