Norwich University will host a public reading by award-winning Vermont poet Major Jackson on Wednesday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in the Kreitzberg Library Multipurpose Room.
Jackson’s reading will be followed by a book signing and Q&A session.
Jackson is the author of three books of poetry, “Holding Company,” and “Hoops,” (both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry) and “Leaving Saturn,” which won the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle.
Jackson serves as the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at the University of Vermont and as a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, as the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and currently serves as the poetry editor of the Harvard Review.
“Those who come to listen to Major Jackson will be hearing one of the biggest names in American poetry,” said Norwich creative writing Prof. Sean Prentiss. “If there is a place to publish, he’s probably published there. If there is an award, he’s probably been a finalist. This is a must-see reading; Major Jackson will not disappoint.”
This is the third event in the inaugural 2013 Writers Series, presented by the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of English & Communications. All events in this series are free and open to the public.
Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates residential students, leading both military and civilian lifestyles, and working adults across the globe. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in baccalaureate and master’s degrees, and graduate certificates. Founded in 1819 by U.S. Army Capt. Alden Partridge, Norwich is the oldest private military college in the country and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).
