Major Jackson - Poets & Their Craft Lecture Series

Part of the Sun Dog Poetry Center lecture series Poets and The Craft, which brings poets to speak at independent bookstores around Vermont. Major Jackson comes to Bear Pond Books to speak about The Music Inside Lyric Poetry. You can read more about the full series at the Sun Dog Poetry Center website http://sundogpoetry.com/

Major Jackson is an American poet, professor and the author of four collections of poetry: ROLL DEEP (published in August, 2015), HOLDING COMPANY (W.W. Norton, 2010) and HOOPS (W.W. Norton, 2006), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry and LEAVING SATURN (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. He is also a recipient of 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.