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images inspired by Lorri Jackson as compiled by Rachellie (if you're curious about any of them, pls. write to me and I can give proper credit- some of the pics are mine as well)


i saw Lorri Jackson and Lydia Lunch read poetry at Hothouse on Milkwaukee Ave. in Chicago c. 1990 or so + i have never forgotten her. Lorri impacted me so much as a writer that i am hoping to build this fan site + expose others to her work. Please let me know if you have info to add. i will credit everything.......

.....this is what i know (+ will improve upon as i learn more, so bear with me): Lorri Jackson was an "army brat" from Kentucky. she was beautifully, heavily, gorgeously tattooed up and down. she wrote amazing poetry. she died too young via heroin.....

......a friend of hers wrote this about Lorri on www.conceptualink.blog-city.com, "jackson would have been a diva of the underground because she was one of those people who craved the limelight --and deservedly so. she was an immensely fucking vital being with talent out wahzoo and not just as a writer/poet. she was an artist, writer, musician ... best at writing, to be sure ... secondly musicianship ... thirdly at art, but this was only because that was her prioritization; her delegation of where she wanted to concentrate her energy.".......

......from (her sister's?) aol members site, "She had several poems published in Chiron Review, as well as similar publications. She also completed three books, New Logic for New Sores, My Mouth is a Hole in My Face, and Scat (published four years after her death by Oyster Publication). She had poems included in Editor's Choice III, edited by Morty Sklar and A New Geography of Poets by the University of Arkansas Press. Her life was looking up, she was becoming an established poet performing with the likes of Jim Carroll and Lydia Lunch. Her life was full of promise when she succumbed to an addiction that took her life on October 9th, 1990, at the age of 28."......

I'd love to get more people into Lorri's work, and invite you to please friend me at my own page (Rachellie- the top page here). when it asks you for my name, it's Rachel Cunningham. thanks all.

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Does anyone have "And the Corpse Had Numerous Tattoos"?

From a 2006 blog "Chasing Vincenzo"    Praying To The Corpse of Lorri Jackson   The other day, and somewhere down the page, I talked about the writing starting again. And I...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:24:00 GMT

more new material: Trib piece, Chiron Review, and pics

Orion sent in some materials that are posted here and in the pictures section- thank you! He sent the Chicago Tribune article that appeared on the front page after she died. Personally I think the art...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:20:00 GMT

rare article from Tattoo Revue, c. 1990 or so

I recently found this article within my own writing files, and am so happy bec. I thought it had been tossed long ago. My friend Scott made a copy of this article for me after we saw her perform ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:35:00 GMT

more work by Lorri Jackson forthcoming

MANY thanks to Michael of Chiron Review and Ed of AdoreSixtyFour for sending me Lorri Jackson’s published and unpublished work. I am in the process of scanning everything, and will be posting th...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:44:00 GMT

book,

note Jan. 2nd> it's taking me time to sort through abt. 100+ poems, so I'm going to do this slowly and hope you enjoy these poems as they come out 1 by 1. My big dreams of a smash BDay celebratio...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:17:00 GMT

poem, "Vicious Wishes"

"Vicious Wishes" She admitted, not knowing who would be abused. "I chew my lips until they bleed at night. I cross my legs to keep from yelling. Even the smallest kisses come recalled, as though they ...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:04:00 GMT

poem, "This Poem Makes Me Happy"

"This Poem Makes Me Happy" Because of you I want to eat bacon 3 times a day, to sitwith my legs spread, so that I can smellmy own strong self at breakfast to have secret affairs behind the world's bac...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:03:00 GMT

poem, "Raw Dog"

"Raw Dog" Caring is drunk is drank to a close in a bar between ambition lost at 5AM. the second all night fruit market Close out this doorsteps. idols of maybe tomorrow where wednesday truths escape i...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:01:00 GMT

poem, "A Moment of Transcendence, Almost 69"

"A Moment of Transcendence,Almost 69" dashboard lights... gleam UFOno conversation across the darkinnerstate 80 to detroit iggyon the tape machine ...2 carpenterswho picked us up... up front ...my hea...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:00:00 GMT

poem, "July in Chicago"

"July in Chicago" downtown pigeons peck at dirtybits on the roof of the ymcaon chicago & statewhere i livein so much uncertaintynow in the clinging heatof a downhill julyafter having jumpedthe si...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:58:00 GMT