Ithaca College

The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in poetry Major Jackson as part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. He will read from his work at 7:30pm on Tuesday, February 22nd in Clark Lounge, Campus Center. The reading is free and open to everyone.

Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company, released last year by W.W. Norton; Hoops (2006), a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry; and Leaving Saturn (2002), finalist for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.

Major Jackson’s poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, TriQuarterly, and The New Yorker. He has 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. He 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 the poetry editor of Harvard Review.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Jack Wang at 607-274-3493 or wang@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.