B. 1995, Detroit, MI
university
MA African-American Studies, University of California at Berkeley
BA American Studies and Africana Studies, Tufts University
University of Oxford, The University of Hong Kong
projects in-progress
transatlanticslaverave : poems
completed projects
the calling: poems (out of print)
AbolitionISH, a black politics and culture podcast at the end of the world
(2019-2022)
publications
2023
“Black Myopia” in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
2022
"Starships and Slave Ships: Black Ontology and the UFO Abduction Phenomenon" in Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences
2021
“Dark Matters” in Button Poetry
2020
"Ars Poetica, age 4" in The Offing
2016
Jonathan Jacob Moore in VINYL
Poetry by Jonathan Jacob Moore in The James Franco Review
"And Other Hoaxes" in Shade
conversations
2022
Interview with Jon Jon Moore in BAR Book Forum
Jon Jon Moore’s “The Calling: Poems” in BAR Book Forum
2016
“frank ocean and all black things that disappear on their own”: A Conversation with Jonathan Jacob Moore in Ploughshares Blog
public talks
2023
Panel Convener, "Care Against Humanity: Afropessimism and Practice,” Strategies of Critique: Care and Cure, Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, York University
2022
Captive Maternal and Black Feminism Roundtable with Dr. Joy James
2021
“Black Myopia: Notes on Dionne Brand,” A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering, York University
2019
"Slaves are Not Called: The Impact of Anthony Farley in Thinking Black Life and Law," American Studies Association Conference Panel Chair
The Taking of Barney Hill: Objective Vertigo and the Ontology of Alien Abduction, Rupture & Relation: A Workshop on Black Critical Thought, Northwestern University
2018
Fear the Living (Black): A New Genre of Human in the Zombie Apocalypse, Theorizing Zombiism Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland
“New Approaches in Zombie Studies,”at NEMLA Convention
"Surreal Articulation, Black Communication," at NWSA Convention
“Queer Thought, Black Thought,” at AAIHS Conference
residencies and fellowships
2023
Lucille Clifton Memorial Fellow, Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, Olympic Valley, CA
2022
The Watering Hole, McCormick, SC
2019
Show Us Your Spines Poetry Resident, Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library
2014
Research Fellow at Harvard Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research, Gerald Gill Fellow at Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University