Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson is UC Foundation Professor of English at UTChattanooga and the author of four books of poems, most recently Heartwall (Umass, Juniper Prize Winner, 2000) Alive All Day (Clevland [...]
Desperate Beginnings
Tonight I will begin with the silence of water dripping from a soldier’s bugle, a rain that might fall from a time before this one, might erode even the works of Michelangelo or Rodin. I will [...]
Archeology: Letter To Stern From Mantua
What is the word for the way starlight spins itself out to become dawn? Or the way the first breeze tries to push away desire while the heart's thin web hangs last night's words by a thread? What [...]
Why I Digress So
It’s only when we don’t know where we’re going, said Oscar Wilde, that we can ever find our way. Which is why everything I’ve neglected to do stalks me tonight, —desires left hanging on the [...]
