Gary Jackson

Cynthia Manick

Len Lawson

Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry

Future of Black

Winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize The exploits you find in my comics are no more probable than snow in Sunnyvale. I'm not as black as you dream. —from "Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is Missing You, Metropolis With humor and the serious collector's delight, Gary Jackson imagines the comic-book worlds of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men alongside the veritable worlds of Kansas, racial isolation, and the gravesides of a sister and a friend.

Poems

Missing You, Metropolis

origin story outlines a family history of distant sisters, grieving mothers and daughters, and alcoholic fathers. These poems take us from Kansas to Korea and back again in an attempt to reconnect with estranged family and familial ghosts divided by years of diaspora. An interrogation of cultural and personal myths, origin story wrestles with the questions: Who will remember us? How do we deal with the failures of memory? Whose stories are told?

Origin Story

I am retired now, having retired in 2011 after working for more than 45 years in the communications business. My experiences and stories recounted in the pages of From Hello Girls to Cell Phones were acquired from working with small independent telephone companies in Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota. These stories are a view of one man's journey.

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