Didi Jackson

Didi Jackson is the author of Moon Jar (Red Hen Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review , Alaska Quarterly Review , the Kenyon Review , the New Yorker , Oxford American , Ploughshares , and Virginia Quarterly Review , among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for The Best American Poetry , Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, and Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic . She...See more

Didi Jackson is the author of Moon Jar (Red Hen Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review , Alaska Quarterly Review , the Kenyon Review , the New Yorker , Oxford American , Ploughshares , and Virginia Quarterly Review , among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for The Best American Poetry , Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, and Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic . She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and was a finalist for the Meringoff Prize in Poetry. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. See less