Justin C. Tackett

Justin C. Tackett is assistant professor of English at Utah State University, which resides and operates on the territories of the eight tribes of Utah. His current project is “The Sound Era: Poetry’s Machinery in the Long Nineteenth Century.” His next project addresses silent film. He has published in The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Review of Books, Review of English Studies, Victorian Poetry, and others.


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B-Sides: The Poems of John Rollin Ridge, or Yellow Bird (Chees-quat-a-law-ny)

“These were not just celebratory poems praising nature as the genre required, but practical ones recording California’s resources, peoples, and events.”