Major Jackson

Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company (W.W. Norton, 2010) and Hoops (W.W. Norton, 2006), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle.^[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 faculty member of the Bennington College Writing Seminars.^[3][4][5] He serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.^[1]

His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poetry, and Tin House. 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.^[6][7] His work has been included in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2004 (Scribner, 2004), The Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses, (W.W. Norton & Company, 2004) Schwerkraft, ^[8] From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009),^[9][10] and The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010).^[11]

Honors and awards

His honors include a 2003 Whiting Writers' Award,^[12] a 1995 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a 2003 Witter Bynner Fellowship.^[13] He was poet in residence at The Frost Place in 2004, and has served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.^[1], and the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College.

Poetry Collections

• Holding Company: Poems. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2010. ISBN 9780393070804. 
• Hoops: Poems. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2006. ISBN 9780393330373. 
• Leaving Saturn: poems. University of Georgia Press. 2002. ISBN 9780820323428. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Author's Website. Major Jackson Biography
2. ^ Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Major Jackson Bio
3. ^ "Major Jackson". Blueflowerarts.com. 2006-04-17. http://www.blueflowerarts.com/major-jackson. Retrieved 2010-10-09. 
4. ^ "Boston Review — Major Jackson: Myth". Bostonreview.net. http://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/jackson2.php. Retrieved 2010-10-09. 
5. ^ "major jackson | identity theory interview". Identitytheory.com. 2009-09-17. http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/major_jackson.php. Retrieved 2010-10-09. 
6. ^ Poets & Writers Directory Listing > Major Jackson
7. ^ Blue Flower Arts > "Major Jackson Biography"
8. ^ Ron Winkler. "Ron Winkler: SCHWERKRAFT". Ronwinkler.de. http://www.ronwinkler.de/schwerkraft.html. Retrieved 2010-10-09. 
9. ^ Camille T. Dungy, Matt O'Donnell, Jeffrey Thomson, ed (2009). From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Persea Books. ISBN 9780892553488. 
10. ^ From the Fishouse Major Jackson Bio
11. ^ Greg Delanty, Michael Matto, ed (2010). The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation. W. W. Norton & Company Limited. ISBN 9780393079012. 
12. ^ Whiting Foundation > Past Recipients of the Whiting Writers' Award
13. ^ Witter Bynner Foundation Fellowship Recipients

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
• 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

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