MAJOR JACKSON

Headshot of Major Jackson.

Major Jackson is the award-winning author of six poetry collections including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.

“We went to sip from our blue cups but the bombs

caught us merely blowing at the lips.

We were almost quenched.”

“…when poetry acts to remind us that we are flesh and blood, bone and sinew, with a complex neural and emotional system, then, I feel such poems go beyond the pall of self-involvement…”

September 24, 2023

October 1, 2023