Jonathan Jacob Moore, or Jon Jon, is a Detroit-born scholar and writer. He is a 2017 National College Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) Best Poet and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at University Of California, Berkeley, where he is a Berkeley Fellow. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in BOAAT, DREGINALD, DRØME, Foglifter, The James Franco Review, RaceBaitR, and Vinyl among others.
Jon Jon is Managing Editor at Qui Parle, Fellowship Director at Winter Tangerine, and Book Reviewer for the Shade Journal.
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Awards, Fellowships, residencies
2019
SHOW US YOUR SPINES September Resident
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library
First Place
2019 Berkeley Graduate Fellows Video Contest
2018
Finalist
Rustbelt Poetry Slam, Detroit, MI
Finalist
FEMS Poetry Slam, Boston, MA
2017
Ted Shapiro Memorial Award for Best Senior Honors Thesis |
Highest Thesis Honors
Tufts University American Studies Program
Honos Civicus
Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
Pride on the Hill Award
Tufts University LGBT Alumni Association
Best Poet | Best Poem | Best Persona Poem
ACUI College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI), Chicago, IL
2016
President's Fund Grantee
Anthony Monaco, President of Tufts University
2015
Gerald Gill Research Fellow | Research Fellow
Center for the Study of Race & Democracy at Tufts University and Harvard Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research
2014
Top 100 Black LGBTQ Leaders-To-Watch
National Black Justice Coalition
2013
Gates Millennium Scholar
Horatio Alger National Scholar
selected works
2020
VIDEO: Button Poetry | "Zumbi"
2019
REVIEW: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment | A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. By Kathryn Yusoff
Contrapunktal
featured in Foglifter Journal, Vol. 4 Issue 2
flora & fauna
featured in BOAAT and Propter Nos
2018
RaceBaitR | Carried by Corpses: 'This is America' or The Ingenuity of Lynching in 10 Parts
REVIEW: the Shade Journal | Textual Teleportation in Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "M Archive: After the End of the World"
DRØME | It’s (Been) the End: A Repudiation of Trumpocalypticism Ending in Affirmation
2017
REVIEW: The Poetry Project October/November Newsletter
"Body Text" by Sean D. Henry Smith
the Shade Journal | And Other Hoaxes
2016
INTERVIEW: The Ploughsares Blog at Emerson College (John Rufo) | “frank ocean and all black things that disappear on their own”: A Conversation with Jonathan Jacob Moore
The James Franco Review | Issue 8
Vinyl Poetry | for Prince & scooby-doo enters the diary room
the Shade Journal | Issue 1
Black Napkin Press | Vol 1 Issue 3
Winter Tangerine | Sing That Like Dovesong Anthology
2015
Tufts Observer | Speaking Back to Death in Black Breath
education | scholarship
Currently
Ph.D. African-American Studies and African Diaspora Studies (May 2023)
University of California, Berkeley
Spring 2017
B.A. American Studies & Africana Studies (2013-2017)
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Senior Honors Thesis: Notes on Speculating the Black Apocalyptic
Writing Fellow
Introduction to Anthropology of Science & Technology | Dr. Nick Seaver
Fall 2016
Writing Fellow
Religion & Politics in American History | Dr. Heather Curtis
Spring 2016
Exchange Student, Africana Studies
The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Fall 2015
Teaching Assistant
Race in America | Professor Jean Wu
works in progress
Jon Jon is currently working on his first manuscript.
