Major Jackson
Friday, March 1, 2024
St Catherine’s Episcopal Church
$30 admission
Join us for an evening with poet, Major Jackson, who’ll read from his latest collection, Razzle Dazzle.
“His lush language invites us into the exquisite realms here at our feet — or beyond that tree, there, in the cracks between the old stones. Take it in, be fed, feel close to something elemental again.” –Naomi Shihab Nye
“Major Jackson possesses an almost superhuman ability to see himself and his world clearly. His sixth poetry collection, Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2020, reads like a superhero’s origin story.” –Erica Wright, in Chapter 16.
He will also be teaching a workshop, on Saturday, March 2, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Hoffman Center.
About Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: Newparticipants & Selected Poems (2023), The Absurd Man (2020), Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson edited by Amor Kohli. A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, John S. Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, 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 has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry London, and World Literature Today. Major Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.
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March 1–Reading and author talk with poet, Major Jackson
