Major Jackson

Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including 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.
A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 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.
Major Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard A. Dennis Professor of English and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.
Major Jackson elsewhere on Lannan.org
Walt Whitman Tribute Evening, (Events)Nothing Personal: The Dark Room Collective Reunion Tour, (Events)
Major Jackson Podcasts
Walt Whitman Tribute Evening featuring Eamon Grennan, Major Jackson, and Pattiann Rogers with Michael Silverblatt, 11 February 2009 - AudioNothing Personal: The Dark Room Collective Reunion Tour, 12 December 2013 – Audio
Sharan Strange, Nothing Personal: The Dark Room Collective, Part 1, 12 December 2013 – Video
Tisa Bryant, Nothing Personal: The Dark Room Collective, Part 2, 12 December 2013 – Video
John Keene, Nothing Personal: The Dark Room Collective, Part 3, 12 December 2013 – Video
Thomas Sayers Ellis with James Brandon Lewis on Saxophone, Nothing Personal: The Dark Room Collective, Part 4, 12 December 2013 – Video
Major Jackson, Nothing Personal: The Dark Room Collective, Part 5, 12 December 2013 – Video
Natasha Trethewey, Nothing Personal: The Dark Room Collective, Part 6, 12 December 2013 – Video
Audience Q&A, Nothing Personal: The Dark Room Collective, Part 7, 12 December 2013 – Video
Major Jackson around the Web
Additional Photos of the 11 February 2009 Event on FlickrAdditional Photos of the 12 December 2013 Event on Flickr