Major Jackson, an award-winning poet and host of the podcast “The Slowdown,” gave a public reading during his visit to Emory University on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2023, in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the main campus.

The reading, one of the University’s Black History Month celebration events, was part of the annual Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series founded by Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library , which holds a collection of Jackson’s papers.

Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including “Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems” (2023), “The Absurd Man” (2020), “Roll Deep” (2015), “Holding Company” (2010), “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.” He is also the author of “A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson” edited by Amor Kohli.

The public reading at Emory is sponsored by the Hightower Fund, Emory Libraries and the Rose Library, Emory’s Department of English and the Creative Writing Program, Emory Arts, the Decatur Book Festival, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Read articles about his visit:

Award-winning poet Major Jackson to read his work at Emory University
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2024/0...

Poet Major Jackson ‘razzle-dazzles’ Emory audiences
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2024/0...

Poet Major Jackson discusses new collection and how poetry lit up his soul
https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/poet...


More from the Emory Libraries playlist, including other Danowski series guest poets:    • Emory University Libraries  

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