About
Aaron Middlepoet Jackson is the former Poet Laureate of Jersey City, NJ. He is a two time recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation and a semi-finalist for a UCLA/Pen Fellowship. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two dogs.
Published Work:
Poetry:
-”Coastal Haiku” and “Walking Buddy” Four and Twenty Journal, April 2010
-”In a moment” Vwa: Poems for Haiti, edited by Lisa Marie Basile, March 2010
-“Slumber” Word Catalyst Magazine, March 2010
-“Classified”, “Mathematics”, “Skid Row Streets” Unhoused Voices: Granting Change for the Homeless, Sabella Press, August 2009
-“I’ll be your Huckleberry”, “Hollywood Interview” CommonLine, July 2009
-“Have you seen my girl”, “Things that are getting on my nerves” Afterword Magazine, July 2009
-“Motion in music” Halving a baby, December 2006
-“Hollywood” Joey Magazine, September 2006
-“Trouble in her whisper”, “Summer evening”, “Elegance”, “Last night” Bare Back Magazine 2006
-“Meta-Middle love poem” The Written Voice, March 2006
-“Mythic She” Bare Back Magazine, December 2005
-“Refrain” Humdinger Zine, November 2005
-“Downtown at night” The Los Angeles Journal, October 2005
-“Six Wishes” The Hudson Current, March 2005
-“Burrowing through morning”, “City streets” Take Magazine, April 2004
-“Window”, “New Jersey Transit”, Melted Pot”, “For those who have moved on” The Waterbug Hotel Digest 2004
-“Gossip” Brew Ha Ha Anthology, 2003
-“Doing Things” Collected Works of Children Edited by Bonnie Kaplan and Ed Gordon, 1981
Fiction:
-“Commands” The Written Voice, April 2006
-“Drugs and the corner (Mid-Wilshire at night)” Bruise Magazine, March 2006
Audio:
-“Newsflash”, “I’m Tired”, “A Dear John Letter to Hip-Hop” 20 Dissidents audio cd Winter, 2007
Photography:
-Photos of Vermont, Borderhopping.net, February, 2010
