UO Today interview: Poet Major Jackson

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Major Jackson reads his poetry and discusses his work. Jackson is author of five collections 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. Jackson is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, and he serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review. On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, Jackson will give a virtual reading as a guest of the UO’s Creative Writing Program. Register: http://crwr.uoregon.edu

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