In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s still National Poetry Month. Look for a double review of local verse — including a National Book Award nominee who teaches at Dartmouth College — in this week’s paper.
Good news for another local poet: the University of Vermont’s Major Jackson has won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jackson (pictured) edits the Harvard Review and has published his work widely in journals, including the New Yorker, as well as in three collections. Here’s my review of his most recent collection, Holding Company, which compares it to a “big, ambitious concept album.”
And here’s a profile of Jackson we ran way back in ’04. You can hear him read this Wednesday, April 17, 7 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room, Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University in Northfield. (Read more about the new Norwich Writers Series here.)
Or catch Jackson in Middlebury at “A Spring Evening With Four Vermont Writers,” sponsored by the New England Review, on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café. Also reading will be two Midd undergrads, Eliza Gilmore and Thomas Kivney; and Henriette Lazaridis Power, whose new novel The Clover House bears some impressive blurbs.
Are there more readings this week? Glad you asked.
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