Poetry | Wednesday, February 11,2009

People's Poetry

Jacqueline Jackson presents

sonnet to a furious raccoon you do not understand the ways of men who have a fondness for the furry wild and keep you not through meanness we beguiled you from your natural haunts into a pen we led

Poetry | Wednesday, January 21,2009

People's Poetry

Jacqueline Jackson presents

By Jacqueline Jackson

winterpoem # 4 had to do something to cut the gloom and doom around here so proposed a hike to the cemeteryto see the frozen raccoon my grandkids discovered yesterday it was still there still an

Poetry | Wednesday, January 14,2009

People's Poetry

Jacqueline Jackson presents

By Jacqueline Jackson

kidquote poem #8 (scrap found written bydaughter #4, age 10 years,counting her blessings) 1. I am alive 2. I am here 3. I have friends 4. I am not an orphan 5. I have sisters 6. I am skilled 7.

Poetry | Wednesday, January 7,2009

People's Poetry

Jacqueline Jackson presents

By Jacqueline Jackson

cellopoem #1 I watched gerrall practicingthe back legs of her folding chairwere neatly wearing shoes perhapsto even the seat more likely to keepthe

Books | Wednesday, December 31,2008

A family tells its story, and you can tell yours

By Jacqueline Jackson

Here’s a book you’ll love. I’m stating up front it’s by a good friend, Rosie Roach Miller, who grew up in Belleville, graduated from Millikin, married a vet from Springfield w

Feature | Wednesday, December 24,2008

A Hanukkah Story

By Jacqueline Jackson

Untitled Document Andy leaned diffidently against my office door. “You got a student room to rent?” “Yeah,” I said. “Aren’t you living somewhere now?”

Poetry | Wednesday, December 17,2008

People's Poetry

Jacqueline Jackson presents

By Jacqueline Jackson

adventspiral poem #1almost too heartbreakinglybeautiful for words the roomtransformed to a dark pine foresta candle in the midst the childrenone by one entering the spaceeach alone walking the spiralc

Poetry | Wednesday, December 10,2008

People's Poetry

By Jacqueline Jackson

gillianquote poems(daughter #3 at seventeen)I have to writea canterbury taletonight . . . how long did it takechaucer?here’s its stempotatos always seemso self sufficientyou don’t think of

Poetry | Wednesday, December 3,2008

People's Poetry

By Jacqueline Jackson

friendquote poem #12 my birthday lake emiquon too choppy sodropped my kayak into spoon river itsalways held a certain mystique what withthe spoon river anthology though today theriver is not very po

Poetry | Tuesday, November 25,2008

People's Poetry

By Jacqueline Jackson

englandthanksgiving poemI can predict when they’ll be back I told the greenham common campers all of us poised for the cruise missilesto return from war games on salisbury plain thursday is our