Associate Professor
430 Old Mill
(802) 656-3054
Major.Jackson@uvm.edu
EDUCATION: B.S., Temple University; M.F.A. University of Oregon.
COURSES TAUGHT: Advanced Writing: Poetry, Race & Ethnicity in Literary Studies, Poetry of the Black Arts Movement
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Leaving Saturn (Univ. of Georgia Press) |
Hoops (W.W. Norton) |
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PROGRAM CONNECTIONS: ALANA US Ethnic Studies Program
PRIMARY FIELDS OF RESEARCH: Creative Writing, Contemporary Poetry, African-American Literature
CURRENT PROJECTS: Book-length poem. Collection of poetry.
BIOGRAPHY: Major Jackson’s debut volume of poems, Leaving Saturn, selected by poet and novelist Al Young to receive the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet, was nominated for a 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award and has received critical attention in The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Parnassus, Philadelphia Inquirer, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Callaloo, Grand Street, Post Road, The New Yorker, among other literary journals. Formerly the Literary Arts Curator of the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, he is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as a commission from The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. In 2003, he received the prestigious Whiting Writers’ Award. He has given readings around the country and participated in many festivals including Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Poetry Society of America’s Festival of New American Poets, and The New Yorker Festival in Bryant Park, New York City. He is a graduate of Temple University and University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program. Major Jackson is an assistant professor of English at University of Vermont, a faculty member of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina, and a Witter Bynner Fellow for the Library of Congress. He lives in South Burlington, Vermont. His second book of poems Hoops was published in March of 2006.
Photo Credit: Joseph M. Desrosiers, Jr.