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Jackson will appear at the Southern Festival of Books Oct. 22

Join Bethel’s Byrd's Books as they host award-winning poet and writer Major Jackson in conversation with WCSU’s Brian Clements at Broken Symmetry Gastro Brewery on Sunday, October 23

The award-winning poet Major Jackson, who has five collections of poetry, including 2020's "The Absurd Man," has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House and other publications, and is an

Hoops (2006), and  Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include  Best American Poetry 2019,  Renga for Obama, and  Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foun...

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 a...