Poetry Reading - Major Jackson
The Department of English
presents a poetry reading
by
Major Jackson (University of Vermont)
October 13th, 12pm
Arts 160, Arts Building, 853 Sherbrooke Street West
free and open to the public
Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry: Holding
Company (Norton: 2010), Hoops (Norton: 2006), and Leaving Saturn
(University of Georgia: 2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry
Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Hoops
was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category of
Outstanding Literature - Poetry. He is a recipient of a Whiting
Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the
Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the
Library of Congress. He served as a creative arts fellow at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and as
the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at University of
Massachusetts-Lowell. Major Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and
Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member
of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He serves as the Poetry Editor
of the Harvard Review.
