Population Boom
Every dead child comes back. The cities crowd out from north to south. Blink and they’re fine, blink again and they look exactly how we left them under the water, under the earth, bound and…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Gary Jackson
Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collections origin story and Missing You, Metropolis, which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo, The Sun, Gulf Coast, and Copper Nickel. He’s an associate professor in English and creative writing at the College of Charleston.