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Bookmark or Share- Angela Jackson | The Poetry FoundationAngela Jackson is a Chicago poet, playwright, and novelist. She has received numerous honors for both fiction and poetry, including the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council.
- Illinois Humanities | Illinois Poet Laureate Angela JacksonAngela Jackson, the fifth Illinois Poet Laureate, is an award-winning poet, novelist, and playwright who has published three chapbooks and four volumes of poetry.
- About Angela Jackson - Academy of American PoetsAngela Jackson is the author of Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners (TriQuarterly Books, 1993), winner of the 1994 Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry. She was appointed as the Poet Laureate of Illinois in 2020. In 2021, she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.
- Ms. Jackson's Biography - IllinoisAngela Jackson is an award-winning poet, novelist, and playwright who has published three chapbooks and four volumes of poetry. Born in Greenville, Mississippi and raised on Chicago's Southside, she was educated at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.
- Angela Jackson's Biography - The HistoryMakersAngela Jackson, poet, playwright and fictionist, was born July 25, 1951, in Greenville, Mississippi. Her father, George Jackson, Sr. and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson moved to Chicago where Jackson attended St. Anne’s Catholic School.
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