Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Adjunct Faculty
English, College of Arts and Sciences
Nexus Building 312
516.877.4041
lamon@adelphi.edu
Faculty Profiles
General Information
Diplomas/Degrees
Diplomas/Degrees
M.F.A., Indiana University Bloomington (2006)
J.D., UCLA School of Law (1987)
B.A., Mount Holyoke College (1978)
Specialization/Interests
Specialization/Interests
Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction
Pedagogy
Books
Books
LaMon, Jacqueline Jones (2011). . Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.
LaMon, Jacqueline Jones (2006). Gravity, U.S.A. Modesto, CA: Quercus Review.
LaMon, Jacqueline Jones (2002). In the Arms of One Who Loves Me. New York, NY: One World/Ballantine.
Invited Presentations
Invited Presentations
Panelist, "The Influence of Race and Politics on Literary Narratives." National Black Writers Conference, Brooklyn, NY.
Other Work
Other Work
"Cabin Fever." Poem. New York: No, Dear, 2008.
"鈥淭he Age-Progression Artist Pencils In Thicker Lashes,鈥 Ninth Letter (Volume 5, Issue 1, 2008).
鈥淔or My Husband: Who Took Our Daughter to the Park So I Could Get Some Rest, Then Fell Asleep and Awakened to an Empty Stroller.鈥 Ninth Letter (Volume 5, Issue 1, 2008).
鈥淗ow the Bryant Boy Will Know.鈥 Crab Orchard Review (Summer 2008).
鈥淎erial.鈥 Mourning Katrina. CD-ROM. Harrisonburg: James Madison, 2007.
鈥淐haperone on the Chicago Charter.鈥 The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 2007.
鈥淪ynchronicity.鈥 Shared Voices/Shared Spaces. Indianapolis: Arts Council, 2006.
鈥淐lair de Lune.鈥 Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem鈥檚 First Decade. University of Michigan Press (2006).
鈥淏oarders.鈥 MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry. (2006).
鈥淭he Legend of Clarence Thomas.鈥 Natural Bridge (Number 14, Fall 2005), 62-78.
鈥淭he Legend of the Several Aunt Jemimas.鈥 WarpLand 12:1 (2005), 6-10.
鈥淎lmost Thanksgiving,鈥 鈥淣ine Days Before Kirby High鈥檚 Senior Prom.鈥 Crab Orchard Review (Summer/Fall 2005), 130-131.
鈥淕oing for this It.鈥 Fugue (Summer 2005), 186.
鈥淢oss.鈥 Crab Orchard Review (Spring 2004).
鈥淢iss Dee and Slim Jim鈥檚 Colored Store.鈥 African Voices (Winter/Spring 2003), 5.
鈥淐all for Submissions,鈥 鈥淕ladys Knight & the Pips.鈥 WarpLand 9:1 (2003), 45-46.
鈥淔eeding Birds in Richmond.鈥 Cave Canem VI: 2001 Anthology (2001) 66.
鈥淪ammy Davis, Jr.鈥 Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, (2001) 82-83.
鈥淛ennifer Holliday.鈥 Soul Food: Inspirational Stories for African Americans (2000)
156-157.
鈥渨hite butterfly.鈥 Cave Canem V: 2000 Anthology (2000) 67.
鈥淭he Breakup: Chapter Two.鈥 Mosaic Literary Magazine (Summer 2000) 20.
鈥淭he Pleasure is Mine.鈥 The Drumming Between Us (Vol. 3, No. 2) 1998.
Nonfiction:
鈥淩eview of Like Trees, Walking by Ravi Howard鈥 Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters, (Summer 2008).
鈥淩eview of Totem by Gregory Pardlo鈥 VISIONS: New Trends in Teaching English, (Summer 2008).
鈥淭he Healing World of Lucille Clifton.鈥 Mosaic Literary Magazine (2006).
鈥淩eview of Armor and Flesh by Mendi Lewis Obadike.鈥 Indiana Review (2006).
鈥淩eview of Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present.鈥 Black Issues Book Review, March 2005.
鈥淩eview of Poetry from the Masters: the Pioneers.鈥 Black Issues Book Review,
March 2004.
鈥淩eview of Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes.鈥 African Voices,
Spring/Summer 2002.
鈥淎 Place Where Healing, Laughter Abounds.鈥 New Pittsburg Courier, May 2, 2001.
鈥淪hake Dance: Erotic or Exploited?鈥 Indianapolis Recorder, March 16, 2001.
鈥淩eview of Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories about African Women.鈥
AALBC.com, 2001.
Creative Scholarship
Creative Scholarship
"The Latitude, The Longitude, and a Third Access Called Time,"
"What to Do When Everything Gets Tossed from the Vessel."
Obsidian, Volume 43.2
"The Children's Chorus,"
"Civil Rights,"
"The Ride Home."
Poetry of Women's Resistance. OR Books.
"Socratic" POETRY Magazine.
"What to Do When Everything Gets Tossed from the Vessel,"
"And Tomorrow, We Learn to Name the Air,"
"In the Middle of the Night,"
"With a View of the Water from Stable, Cleared Ground,"
"Currency"
(Pre)Conceived Bridges (Issue #200). Belladonna* Chaplet Series.
"The Garonne River Shifts Her Direction." AMP Digital Journal.
"What We Wear to Meet the Water." Prairie Schooner.
"The Only Time We Think of It Is When It's No Longer There." Narrative Magazine (Poem of the Week, 2015)
"Breaking and Entering." WomenArts Quarterly Journal (Volume 5, Issue 3)
"Polar Vortex, 2014,"
"Holding,"
"Quiet on the Set,"
"The Browning,"
"Cruise to Nowhere."
SHIRLEY: PART OF A PROBLEM (Issue #176), Belladonna* Chaplet Series.
"In the Beginning,"
"No One Eats Icicles Anymore,"
"The Death, the Dying, A Million Times Over."
Breakwater Review (Poetry, Issue XVIII).
"Skully." Kweli Journal.
""Words: A Bop"". Brilliant Corners. December 2012.
""Nine to the Limit"". Crab Orchard Review. November 2012.
""The Facial Reconstructionist Has Cocktails with the Girls"". A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. University of Akron Press. March 2012.
""A Car Full of Yesterdays, Empty Except for One,"
"No Good Can Come From A Subway Car, Empty Except for One,"
"The Scent of a Subway Car, Empty Except for One,"
"Performing in the Aisle, Empty Except for One."
West Branch Wired. July 2011.
""And what would you say if you could"". Mythium. February 2010.
""Describe a morning you woke without fear"". Bellevue Literary Journal. September 2009.
""Who are you and whom do you love?"". RATTLE. July 2009.
"Rutgers Reading Series". Poetry Reading. Newark, NJ. February 2009.
"Cave Canem at Enoch Pratt". Poetry Reading. Baltimore, MD. December 2008.
"Poets for a Better Country". Poetry Reading. New York, NY. October 2008.
"Intersections". Poetry Reading, Interview, and Discussion. Washington, DC. October 2008.
"SUNY Albany". Poetry Reading and Discussion. Albany, NY. September 2008.
""How the Bryant Boy Will Know"". Crab Orchard Review. July 2008.
""The Age-Progression Artist Pencils-in Thicker Lashes,"
"For My Husband: Who Took Our Daughter to the Park So I Could Get Some Rest, then Fell Asleep and Awakened to an Empty Stroller."
Ninth Letter. June 2008.
""Cabin Fever"". No, Dear. March 2008.
""Aerial"". Mourning Katrina, CD and Print Publication. December 2007.
""Chaperone on the Chicago Charter"". The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. June 2007.
""Claire de Lune"". Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. University of Michigan Press.. March 2006.
""Synchronicity"". Postcard Publication and Indianapolis Transit Placard. Shared Voices/Shared Spaces, Indianapolis, IN. March 2006.
""Boarders"". MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry. February 2006.
""Saturday with the Lady Tigers"". Swink. January 2006.
Honors and Accomplishments
Honors and Accomplishments
2012 NAACP Image Award, Finalist (Outstanding Literature, Poetry)
2011 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
2011 James Baldwin Distinguished Lecture on Literary and Social Criticism
2011 Integral Music Chapbook Prize
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