Event Special Events Live! at the Library: Major Jackson with Ron Charles

Date and Location

Part of Black History Month ; Live at the Library

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Major Jackson, the prizewinning author of "Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems" and host of "The Slowdown," will talk with Washington Post Book Critic Ron Charles about his work.

Major Jackson is the author of six collections of poetry: "Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems;" "The Absurd Man;" "Roll Deep;" "Holding Company;" "Hoops;" and "Leaving Saturn," which was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and in Best American Poetry. He served as guest editor of Best American Poetry in 2019. Jackson is a recipient of 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. The Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review, Major Jackson is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.