- Words to My Son is now available!
I am excited to share the release of Words to My Son, my debut poetry collection. Through reflections on love, loss, identity, doubt, resilience, and hope, these poems explore the experiences that shape us and the wisdom we carry forward. I am grateful to finally place this work into readers’ hands. About the Collection Words… Read more: Words to My Son is now available!
Books
In Words to My Son, memory, movement, longing, and inheritance collide across oceans, highways, cities, and dreamlike landscapes.
These poems explore masculinity, identity, loneliness, race, family, and becoming through lyrical reflections rooted in both physical and emotional geography. Moving between intimate personal memory and mythic meditation, the collection traces a restless search for belonging, survival, and selfhood.
Atmospheric, emotionally resonant, and contemplative, Words to My Son is a poetry collection about what we carry, what shapes us, and what it means to continue becoming.
About
Shajuan Jackson is a writer and poet with a background in Television, Fim and Fashion Film production. A lifelong writer, his creative work has carried him across multiple disciplines while deepening his interest in emotion, identiy spirituality and human connection. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Fine arts in Creative Writing.