“On hot summer days, Richard Nixon would light a roaring blaze in the fireplace of his White House study, crank the air conditioning up to full blast, put on a little Mantovani, and gaze out the window at the Washington Monument.”
Imani Elizabeth Jackson is a poet from Chicago. Her writings appear in Triple Canopy, Apogee, The Arkansas International, BOMB, and elsewhere. She's authored the chapbook saltsitting (rereleased by g l o s s, 2020), Consider the Tongue (with S an D. Henry-Smith, 2019), and her first book, Flag, is forthcoming from Futurepoem. Imani is also a member of the Poetry Project’s
Triple Canopy, Apogee, The Arkansas International, BOMB, and elsewhere. She s authored the chapbook
saltsitting (rereleased by g l o s s, 2020),
Consider the Tongue (with S an D. Henry-Smith, 2019), and her first book,
Flag, is forthcoming from Futurepoem. Imani is also a member of the Poetry Project’s 2019-2020 newsletter editorial collective and co-organizes the Chicago Art Book Fair. She lives in Providence now, where she s an MFA candidate at Brown.
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