Angela Jackson Is The State S New Poet Laureate

It was great to hear, late last month, that Chicagoan Angela Jackson has been chosen as the new Illinois poet laureate.

But it was a posthumous honor: Prine died of COVID-19 in April.

Or praying they way into designer

My mama told me enough

Jackson’s a prolific writer in multiple genres—her body of work includes four poetry books, three novels, four plays, and a Gwendolyn Brooks biography—and she’s collected an armload of literary honors. Since we last spoke, after her first novel was published, she’s added an MFA in creative writing and literature from Bennington College to the master’s she already had from the University of Chicago.