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Jackson, Major
Major Jackson is the author of two collections of
poetry Hoops (Norton: 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia: 2002), winner of the 2000
Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National
Book Critics Circle Award. He has received critical
attention in The Boston Globe, Christian Science
Monitor, Parnassus, Philadelphia Inquirer, and on
National Public Radio's All Things Considered. His
poems have appeared in the American Poetry
Review, Boulevard, Callaloo, Post Road, Triquarterly,
The New Yorker, among other literary journals and
anthologies. He is 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. Major Jackson
is an Associate Professor of English at University of
Vermont and a faculty member of the Bennington
Writing Seminars. Currently, he is a fellow at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
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