Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Major Jackson

photo of Major Jackson, by Erin Patrice O'Brien

photo by Erin Patrice O'Brien

Major Jackson is the author of
two books of poetry: Hoops (2006, Norton) and Leaving Saturn (2002, University of Georgia Press).  He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, the New Yorker, Poetry, The New Republic, and other literary magazines.  Hoops was selected as a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. Leaving Saturn, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems.  Jackson’s third volume of poetry, Holding Company, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.

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 has served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and is currently the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Jackson lives in Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont. 

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