WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9:
MAJOR JACKSON
(5:30pm, Stearns Space)
Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry: Hoops (Norton, 2006), finalist for an NAACP Image Award; Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and Holding Company (W.W. Norton, 2010). 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. He served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and as the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Major Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.
Below are the remaining events scheduled for the 2011 Spring Reading Series. All events will take place in the Stearns Student Center Performance Space and are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
2/9/11 (Wednesday): Major Jackson, poet (5:30pm)
2/16/11 (Wednesday): Geoff Hewitt, slam poet (5:30pm);
Slam Workshop to follow.
3/9/11 (Wednesday): JSC Student Poetry Slam (8:30pm)
3/14/11 (Monday): Chris Bachelder, fiction writer (5:30pm)
3/21/11 (Monday): Kaitlyn Greenidge w/ JSC Students
(fiction) (5:30pm)
4/21/11 (Thursday): Natasha Trethewey, poet (5:30pm)
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