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Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the author of six volumes of poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The poetry editor of the Harvard Review and the host of the podcast The Slowdown, Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the author of six volumes of poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The poetry editor of the Harvard Review and the host of the podcast The Slowdown, Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Awards
Shortlisted — NEIBA New England Book Award, 2019
Winner — Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry, 2025
Books by Major Jackson
Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022
Major Jackson
Hardback, 2023
Winner of the Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry
An exuberant collection of two decades of Major Jackson’s passionately intelligent poetry.Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022
Major Jackson
E Book
Winner of the Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry
An exuberant collection of two decades of Major Jackson’s passionately intelligent poetry.Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022
Major Jackson
Paperback, 2025
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2023, an exuberant collection of two decades of Major Jackson’s passionately intelligent poetry