Major Jackson is the author of four books of poetry, including 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. He is the editor of the Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. Jackson is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Tin House, and his work has been included in multiple volumes of Best American Poetry. Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold University Distinguished Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.
Writing:
- American Poetry Review, “A Mystifying Silence: Big and Black”
- The New Yorker Contributor Page
- The Paris Review, “In Memory of Derek Alton Walcott”
- The Paris Review, “Italy” (subscription only)
- The Paris Review, “You, Reader” (subscription only)
- Ploughshares, “Radios”
- Poetry Foundation Bio & Works
- Poets.org, “Poems by Major Jackson”
Interviews:
- Identity Theory, “Major Jackson”
- Poetry Society of America, “Major Jackson”
- Poets & Writers, “Exalted Utterance: An Interview with Major Jackson”
- Redivider, “Interview with Major Jackson”
- Washington Square Review, “Five Questions with Major Jackson”
- The Writer, “Rolling deep with poet Major Jackson”
Official Website: http://www.majorjackson.com
