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Family Reading
Aaron Jackson

Whatever
Book
She
Wants

I will get

My
Parents
Did the same
For me

—
Aaron B. Jackson is the author of Dogetry. He has also been published in over fifty publications and he is the former Poet Laureate of Jersey City, NJ. At times using the pen name Middlepoet, his work has appeared in The Bark Magazine, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Like One: Poems for Boston, and Scripting Change: Seeing Past Sickness. His poetry has been exhibited in Finland’s Pori Art Museum as part of a multimedia collaboration with photographer Chi Modu and motion artist Jan Tompkins, and he has twice been the recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation. He is currently the manager of Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM.

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