Latest Breaking News On - Student literary - Page 1 : vimarsana.com

Best American Poetry. Jackson serves as poetry editor of the Harvard Review. A Philadelphia native, Jackson pursued accounting at Temple University. After college he took a job as finance director at Philadelphia’s Painted Bride Art Center, where he developed a taste for art and activism. He turned to a brief career as a literary critic and journalist of the hip-hop scene before heading off to the University of Oregon to earn his Master of Fine Arts in poetry. He spent 18 years as a professor of English at The University of Vermont. Jackson recently told an interviewer at Vanderbilt that art “can be an immense tool for community-gathering. We are less alone when we hear the human condition articulated in a poem or essay.”

New yorkUnited statesTemple universityFrance generalBritish columbiaNew yorkerMajor jacksonCameron mcgillGertrude conaway vanderbiltGuggenheim foundationVancouver libraryWashington state university visiting writers seriesVancouver college of artsCities writing centerUniversity of vermontCommon reading program