Major Jackson
Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor, author of two collections of poetry. His most recent, Hoops (W.W. Norton, 2006), was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literature - Poetry. His first collection, Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia Press, 2002), was the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. His third volume of poetry, Holding Company, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.[1]
Life
He earned degrees from Temple University and the University of Oregon.[2] He is a professor of English at the University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington College Writing Seminars. He serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.[3]
His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Grand Street, TriQuarterly. His poetry has received critical attention in The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Parnassus, Philadelphia Inquirer, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. [4][5]
Awards
His honors include a 2003 Whiting Writers' Award,[6] a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a 2003 Witter Bynner Fellowship.[7] 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 the University of Massachusetts Lowell.[8]
Works
- Hoops: Poems. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2007. ISBN 9780393330373.
- Leaving Saturn: poems. University of Georgia Press. 2002. ISBN 9780820323428.
Anthologies
- From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Persea Books. 2009. ISBN 9780892553488.
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- The Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses (W.W. Norton & Company, 2004).
References
- ^ Author Website > Major Jackson Biography
- ^ Cave Canem Poetry Prize > Major Jackson Bio
- ^ Author Website > Major Jackson Biography
- ^ Poets & Writers Directory Listing > Major Jackson
- ^ Blue Flower Arts > "Major Jackson Biography"
- ^ Whiting Foundation > Past Recipients of the Whiting Writers' Award
- ^ Witter Bynner Foundation Fellowship Recipients
- ^ Author Website > Major Jackson Biography
- ^ From the Fishouse > Major Jackson Bio
External links
- Video:Basic Black Major Jackson Interview on WGBH 89.7
- Video:Interview with Major Jackson at the NYS Writers Institute in 2008
- Audio: The Cortland Review > Major Jackson Reading Superfluities
- Audio:Major Jackson reading for From the Fishouse
- Audio: Major Jackson reads "Fever" from Holding Company
- Interview: Major Jackson Interview on Identity Theory
- Author’s Booking Agency: Blue Flower Arts > Major Jackson Author Page
- Author Page: W.W. Norton > Major Jackson Bio & Books