Guest Author Major Jackson
August 10 at 11:00AM
Coolidge State Park, Plymouth

Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. He 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.

Join us in celebrating Vermont Humanities' 50th anniversary and the 100th anniversary of Vermont State Parks by registering for a program today! Vermont Humanities will cover the entry fee for the park, so feel free to explore the wilderness after the event.

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