Major Jackson

Photo: Erin Patrice O'Brien

A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (Norton, 2020). His edited volumes of poetry include Renga for Obama and Best American Poetry 2019. He teaches at Vanderbilt University.

Think of Me, Laughing

August 19, 2020 | Major Jackson

Photo by Jeremy Thomas / Unsplash Series editor’s note: In Major Jackson’s new poem, “Think of Me, Laughing,” we meet a speaker who is well-acquainted with the habits of sorrow of inh...
The Absurd Man by Major Jackson

Spring 2020
Major Jackson

New York. W.W. Norton. 2020. 112 pages. Major Jackson’s fifth book of poems is troubled by its own age. “The soil overruns with honey,” says the speaker in “I’ve Said Too Much,” a confession ripe with...
Two US Poems

Summer 2019
Major Jackson

Photo: Picker H/Flickr November in Xichang There are cities one won’t see again. – Joseph Brodsky I. Only a bearded smile shows below a conical hat turning men t...
“Every Poet Has to Be Lonely”: A Conversation with Tomasz Różycki and His Translators

September 2016
Major Jackson, Mira Rosenthal

Tomasz Różycki Photo: Slav Zatoka Tomasz Różycki rose to both critical and popular prominence as an important voice of his generation in Poland when his fifth book, Twelve Stations, won the...