#  Boston College: Poetry Days presents Major Jackson 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 5, 2016** 

 07:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Boston College, Devlin Hall Rm. 101, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467**  



 

 



 

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Major Jackson is the author of four collections of poetry, including *Roll Deep* (2015); *Holding Company* (2010) and *Hoops* (2006), which were both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry; and *Leaving Saturn* (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Jackson has published poems and essays in *American Poetry Review*, *Callaloo*, *The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House*, and in *Best American Poetry.* He has been the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He also serves as Poetry Editor of the *Harvard Review*.



 

 



 

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