“I have been here before / in another body, under another headless night. / Or perhaps // it is all the same night, the same night / tethering the tongues of my great-grandmothers / and their mothers.”
Jamaica hails from Santa Cruz, CA by way of Seattle. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Third Coast, Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry, The Adroit Journal, The Missouri Review, and TriQuarterly, among others. She was the winner of the 2019 San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference Contest in Poetry and received an honorable mention for the 2019 International Literary Award's Rita Dove Prize. Her writing has been supported by Hedgebrook and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica is currently pursuing her PhD in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Celebrating global poems of resistance from the Africa Diaspora. With poets Saddiq Dzukogi, Ebo Barton, Yashika Graham, Gary Lilley and host Jourdan Imani Keith in collaboration of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and Seattle Together.
A reading with Saddiq M Dzukogi, David Winter, and Angel Garcia.
Jun 23 2020
Gaffney/Academy of American Poets Award.
Jun 23 2020
Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award for "Stitched" and "Symphonies" published in the Summer 2018 issue.
Jun 23 2020
Pushcart Prize Editors Nomination for "Call Me By My Name"
Jun 22 2020
Jack Straw Interview with Jourdan Imani Keith
"2017 Jack Straw Writer Jamaica Baldwin talks with curator Jourdan Imani Keith about finding her voice in poetry, adopting silence as a kind of armor, and the male gaze in art and literature…
