Mark Jackley is the author of several chapbooks and two full-length collections, most recently Hello Hello Hello (Blurb Press). His work has appeared in Tampa Review, Melic, Crate, Talking River, Sugar House Review, and other journals. He lives in Sterling,...
By Karen Biscopink
Minutes after sitting down with Mark Jackley’s new chapbook, Appalachian Night, the power went out in my neighborhood. I completed the required activities: lit our decorative candles; searched for a never-used flashlight, buried somewhere during the recent move; veered between spooky panic and romanticism. Deciding to move forward with my planned reading was a fantastic decision on all counts. In fact, the first poem (“Appalachian Night”), begins, “Enfolded by pure darkness / a train slips through the hills.”
Your Impossible Voice #2 features new work from New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Thaddeus Rutkowski, multiple Best American Poetry contributor Arielle Greenberg, MacArthur Fellow and Berlin Prize winner Han Ong, Bay Area favorites Lewis Buzbee and Mary Burger, 2013 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award winner Will Alexander, and more
Mark Jackley is the author of several chapbooks and two full-length collections, most recently Hello Hello Hello (Blurb Press). His work has appeared in Tampa Review, Melic, Crate, Talking River, Sugar House Review, and other journals. He lives in Sterling, Virginia.