THE NASHVILLE POETRY PARTY: Major Jackson

Date & Time

Wed Oct 30 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:45 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Rosemary & Beauty Queen | Nashville, TN

THE NASHVILLE POETRY PARTY: Major Jackson
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THE NASHVILLE POETRY PARTY is rewriting what you think of when you think "poetry reading." Tarot readings, HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST WITH A $50 PRIZE PLAYAS, magick crystals, Pin the Tail on the Poet, DANCE-OFFs, improv, Guest Poet of Most Dubious Honor, MAJOR JACKSON, AND MORE and all of it is FREE.
Major 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. A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, John S. Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, 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 has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry London, and World Literature Today. Major Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.

Event Location

Rosemary & Beauty Queen, 1102 Forrest Ave, Nashville, TN 37206-2738, United States,Nashville, Tennessee

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