Bruce Alvin Jacobs

Bruce Alvin Jacobs’s work appears in African American Review, the Dickinson Review, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day anthology (edited by Billy Collins), and elsewhere. “The Gorge” is from his book-in-progress Fishing While Black. Jacobs’s previous books include the nonfiction book Race Manners and two books of poetry: Cathode Ray Blues and Speaking Through My Skin, the latter of which won the Naomi Long Madgett Award. Jacobs, a Harvard graduate, lives in Washington, DC.