1. /// Instruction ///
Writing Summer Camp Guest Teacher 2013
The List Poem
826LA
Echo Park - Los Angeles, CA
Writing Summer Camp Instructor 2015
Luchador Manifestos
826LA
Echo Park - Los Angeles, CA
/// Service ///
Co-founder
Women Who Submit
Los Angeles, CA
Count Team Volunteer
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
National
Open Reading and First Book Reviewer
Kore Press
Tucson, AZ
Emerging Voices Selection Committee
PEN USA
Beverly Hills, CA
Mentor and Editor
WriteGirl
Los Angeles, CA
/// Sample Publications ///
Chapbook – Surveillance
Writ Large Press (2016)
Chapbook – Language Lesson
Miel Books (2016)
Poem – Fulcrum: The Support About Which A
Lever Turns
CURA Magazine (Fall 2015)
Poem – Professional Wrestling Holds
Prairie Schooner (Sports Issue; 2016)
Poems – The Mothers Coordinate Repast and
Standard American Similes with Interchangeable
Blacks
Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture
(#BlackPoetsSpeakOut Issue; 2015)
Poem - The Body Revivified with Living Artifacts
Inch Magazine (2014)
/// Education ///
MFA – Creative Writing, Poetry Emphasis
Antioch University Los Angeles
/// Awards ///
2
nd
Place, The Rusty Toque 2015 Chapbook
Contest
5
th
Place, YesYes Books 2015 Chapbook Contest
Selection for Miel Books Chapbook Open Reading
/// Residencies ///
Cave Canem Poetry Fellowship
2007, 2008, 2010
VONA/Voices Summer Writing Workshop
Poetry workshop, Suheir Hammad 2006
Poetry workshop, Suheir Hammad 2007
Las Dos Brujas Writing Workshops
Poetry workshop, Kimiko Hahn 2012
/// Sample Reading Sites ///
Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
Clockshop/ Elysian, Silverlake - Los Angeles, CA
Elliot Bay Books, Seattle, Washington
Roar Shack at 826LA, Echo Park - Los Angeles, CA
The New School, New York City, New York
The World Stage, Leimert Park - Los Angeles, CA
/// Curation ///
Cave Canem Rent Party (2014)
A one-time reading, party and fundraiser in
Southern California for Cave Canem, the home
for Black poetry (www.cavecanempoetry.org)
#BlackPoetsSpeakOut: Los Angeles (2015)
A one-time event – part of an international
reading series – showcasing the canon of poetry
by Black poets speaking out against police
violence against the community
(blackpoetsspeakout.tumblr.com)
A
Ashaki M. Jackson
ashakijackson@gmail.com
(916) 600-4110