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词条 Angela Jackson
释义

  1. Life

  2. Awards

  3. Works

     Poetry  Plays  Novels  Memoir  Anthologies 

  4. References

  5. External links

{{for|the British historian|Angela Jackson (writer)}}Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist based in Chicago.[1]

Life

Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the fifth of nine children,[2] but grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where her father, George Jackson, Sr., and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson, moved. In 1977, she graduated from Northwestern University,and Loretto academy where she won the Academy of American Poets Award, and the University of Chicago with an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean studies.[2]

She joined the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) with young black writers such as Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Carolyn Rodgers, Sterling Plumpp,[3] and was editor of the journal Nommo.[4]

Jackson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.[5]

Awards

  • 1973 Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award in 1973
  • 1974 Academy of American Poets Award from Northwestern University in 1974
  • 1979 Illinois Art Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction in 1979
  • 1980 National Endowment For the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction
  • 1984 Hoyt W. Fuller Award for Literary Excellence
  • 1985 American Book Award[6]
  • 1984 DuSable Museum Writers Seminar Poetry Prize
  • 1984 Pushcart Prize for Poetry
  • 1989 ETA Gala Award
  • 1996 Illinois Authors Literary Heritage Award
  • Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards
  • five for fiction and one for poetry; The Carl Sandburg Award
  • Chicago Sun-Times Friends of Literature Book of the Year Award
  • 2000 Illinois Art Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Playwriting
  • 2002 Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America[7]
  • 2008 American Book Award [6]

Works

Poetry

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090727074541/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179226 "VooDoo/Love Magic", Poetry Foundation]
  • {{cite book| title=Voodoo Love Magic |publisher=Third World Press| year=1974 }}
  • The Greenville Club, 1977 (chapbook)
  • {{cite book| title=Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E| publisher=Oba House| year=1985| isbn=978-0-933653-01-6 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Man with the White Liver| others=Illustrator Melora Walters| publisher=Contact II Publications| year=1987| isbn=978-0-936556-16-1 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners| year=1993| url=https://books.google.com/?id=8LUnWSDaXUMC&pg=PP11&dq=Angela+Jackson+poet| publisher=Northwestern University Press| isbn=978-0-8101-5001-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems New and Selected| year=1997| url=https://books.google.com/?id=Yb58CPe9lpoC&dq=Angela+Jackson+poet&printsec=frontcover| publisher=Northwestern University Press| isbn=978-0-8101-5076-8 }}

Plays

  • Witness!, 1970
  • Shango Diaspora: An African American Myth of Womanhood and Love, 1980
  • When the Wind Blows, 1984 (better known as the eta production entitled Comfort Stew)
  • Lightfoot: The Crystal Stair,

Novels

  • Treemont Stone
  • Where I Must Go (2009), American Book Award.

Memoir

  • Apprenticeship in the House of Cowrie Shells

Anthologies

  • {{cite book| title=Boomer Girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation|editor1=Pamela Gemin |editor2=Paula Sergi | publisher=University of Iowa Press| year=1999| isbn=978-0-87745-687-2 }}
  • {{cite book| title=360,̊ a revolution of Black poets| editor=Kalamu ya Salaam| publisher=Black Words| year=1998| isbn=978-0-7394-1585-6 }}

References

1. ^{{Cite web|title=Angela Jackson|url=http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/angela-jackson.html|publisher=Mississippi Writers and Musicians|date=February 4, 2008|accessdate=June 30, 2009}}
2. ^Angela Jackson biography at Poetry Foundation.
3. ^{{cite book| title=15 Chicago Poets|editor1=Richard Friedman |editor2=Peter Kostakis |editor3=Darlene Pearlstein | publisher=Yellow Press| year=1976| isbn=978-0-916328-04-7 }}
4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=tTkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49 "The Eighth Kent Conrad Rivers Award"], Black World, July 1973, p. 49.
5. ^{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/?id=YpxByCkBXCYC&pg=PA221&dq=Angela+Jackson+poet+solo| title=The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature|editor1=William L. Andrews |editor2=Frances Smith Foster |editor3=Trudier Harris | publisher=Oxford University Press| year=2001| isbn=978-0-19-513883-2 }}
6. ^{{cite web |author=American Booksellers Association |title=The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2012] |year=2013 |url=http://www.bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html |work=BookWeb |quote=1985 ... Solo in the Box Car, Third Floor E ... 2008 ... Where I Must Go: A Novel (TriQuarterly) |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313174235/http://bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html |archivedate=March 13, 2013 |accessdate=September 25, 2013}}
7. ^{{Cite web|title=Poetry Society of America Awards for 2002 |url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetytwo_poems.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020616140107/http://www.poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetytwo_poems.html |dead-url=yes |archive-date=June 16, 2002 |publisher=Poetry Society of America |date=July 27, 2004 }}

External links

  • {{cite journal| url=https://books.google.com/?id=1MQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9&dq=Angela+Jackson+poet| title=Word Wizard| work=Ebony Jr. Magazine| author=Nora Brooks Blakely | date=Aug 1985 }}
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