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Today's poem is I Have No Idea What's Going to Happen by Justin Marks. The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We'll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we're revisiting some favorites from Major Jackson's time as host. Today's episode was originally released on February 24, 2023. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's understated poem shows us how impromptu encounters with art, those that are unforeseen, disruptive in the best sense, have us dwell outside time and exist within the spirit of the maker, then return us to our days with a new purchase on our lives.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Today's poem is Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi. The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We'll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we're revisiting some favorites from Major Jackson's time as host. Today's episode was originally released on May 8, 2024. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's compelling poem honors the ancient and indomitable essence of human beings who continue on even in the face of tragedy, who crossover into the perfect fullness of their truth and emotions.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Today's poem is Refusing Rilke's "You must change your life" by Remica Bingham-Risher.The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We'll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we're revisiting some favorites from Major Jackson's time as host. Today's episode was originally released on July 24, 2024. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I live with Rilke's famous line, “You must change your life,” in my ear on repeat, an earworm, as if something is less than stellar about who I am today. I move instinctively towards myself as though I were a massive project, believing I will someday, again in Rilke's words, “burst like a star.” That this is how to be seen, to be loved, to be cherished. This quest has distorted my sense of what is important, sown constant dissatisfaction, and emotional states of being that pose health risks. Pursuing perfection has, at times, alienated me from those I hold dear. Not that I don't love them or they me — but that I get tunnel vision in seeking some heroic terminus.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Recorded by Major Jackson for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 28, 2025. ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.poets.org

Today's poem is Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh. The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We'll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we're revisiting some favorites from Major Jackson's time as host. Today's episode was originally released on September 23, 2024. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “One of the great paradoxes in life is the presence of human suffering on the planet amidst prosperity. No religion can explain this other than point to some large cosmic plan. Sometimes it's tough bearing witness and walking in a world where one feels debilitated, and silence around other people's suffering feels like gaslighting.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Today's poem is If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein. The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We'll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we're revisiting some favorites from Major Jackson's time as host. Today's episode was originally released on December 27, 2023. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's poem is a touchstone example of art that altered how we hear words, but also, how we perform language to transform words into elements of our yielding and will.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Today's poem is I Am Trying to Love the Whole World by Jenny Browne. The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We'll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we're revisiting some favorites from Major Jackson's time as host. Today's episode was originally released on December 21, 2023. In this episode, Major writes… “If only we viewed observations of the natural world and meditations on birds, mammals, and plant life as equally, critically urgent, we might awaken to the necessity of caretaking of our planet and each other. Birdwatching does not have to be a form of looking away, it can be an antidote for our spirit.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Today's poem is Dear—, by DéLana R.A. Dameron. The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We'll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we're revisiting some favorites from Major Jackson's time as host. Today's episode was originally released on November 9, 2023. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's poem of rhyming couplets speaks a truth about loneliness; the wish for a sustaining love and companionship motivates us to work through our differences sometimes at the expense of our emotional health.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Today's poem is If only by Dawn Lundy Martin. The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We'll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we're revisiting some favorites from Major Jackson's time as host. Today's episode was originally released on September 24, 2024. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's poem unapologetically claims psychic space. In order to be at peace and clear-eyed, the speaker forgoes decorative language that would obscure what their heart and mind believe is ethically true.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Today's poem is Learning Money in Reverse by Stephanie Niu. The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We'll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we're revisiting some favorites from Major Jackson's time as host. Today's episode was originally released on April 20, 2023. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's ingenious poem calls attention to the lived realities of financial literacy, how it's touch and go, and how it's thrust upon us if we are not fortunate to receive those lessons in our home.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Today's episode was recorded live onstage at The Crawford in Pasadena, in partnership with our friends at LAist. Listen to hear conversation, poems, and some fun and games with our host Major Jackson and our guests Pádraig ÓTuama, Samiya Bashir, and Jason Schneiderman. The full episode transcript is available on our website at slowdownshow.org. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Today's poem is Why I Write Poetry by Major Jackson. In this episode, Major shares an important announcement. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

October 2024 Dante's Old South Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (2023) and The Absurd Man (2020). He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson . A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Major Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review and hosts the podcast – The Slowdown. www.majorjackson.com Tim Blake Nelson is an actor, writer, director, and producer who has appeared in over ninety films including Just Mercy, Lincoln, Holes, The Incredible Hulk, Meet the Fockers, Minority Report, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Old Henry. Other recent acting credits set for release in 2023 and 2024 include The Bricklayer, Bang Bang, Captain America: New World Order, and Invisibles. His playwriting credits include Socrates, Anadarko, The Grey Zone and Eye of God, the last two of which Nelson adapted and directed for the screen. Other film directing credits include O, Leaves of Grass, and Anesthesia the last two of which he also wrote. His first novel, City of Blows, was published earlier this year and will be released as a paperback in early 2024. Geoffrey Owens was born and raised in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. He attended New York City public schools before attending Yale University.He has had a notable career as a teacher and an actor. On television, he played ‘Elvin' on NBC's “The Cosby Show,” as well as roles on numerous other shows, including “It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Power,” and “Divorce.” He currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey. He thanks Josette for all her support. https://shorturl.at/y4m5D Seth Ingram is a seasoned film producer, educator, and Creative Director of the Rome International Film Festival (RIFF), where he has elevated the event into one of Georgia's most celebrated showcases for independent cinema. As the founder of the Film Program at Georgia Highlands College, Seth also serves as Division Chair of Film, Theatre, and Digital Entertainment, where he mentors emerging filmmakers. His production work includes films such as Signing Day, Spirit Halloween: The Movie, and Outlaw Posse. Recently, he was named one of Georgia's most influential figures in the creative economy by Georgia Entertainment News. Mobley, acclaimed indie singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, returns with a rhapsodic new single, "Y'r Ghost," via Last Gang Records / MNRK Music Group. Written, performed, and produced by Mobley himself, this release signals his reemergence from the studio, where he's been fervently crafting the sci-fi epic foreshadowed on his late 2022 EP Cry Havoc!. “Y'r Ghost” offers a first glimpse of the next installment of this sweeping sonic and narrative world. www.mobleywho.com Additional Music by: Logan Mac “Dance Under Stars” Special Thanks Goes to Our Sponsors: Lucid House Press: www.lucidhousepublishing.com Whispers of the Flight: https://shorturl.at/eAhoD The Crown: www.thecrownbrasstown.com The Red Phone Booth: www.redphonebooth.com Bright Hill Press: www.brighthillpress.org UCLA Extension Writing Program: www.uclaextension.edu Mercer University Press: www.mupress.org NPR: https: www.npr.org WUTC: www.wutc.org The host, Clifford Brooks', The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Old Gods are available everywhere books are sold. Find them all here: https://shorturl.at/Fwv48 Check out his Teachable courses, The Working Writer and Adulting with Autism, here: https://shorturl.at/9bsU3

Ryler Dustin has represented Seattle on the final stage of the Individual World Poetry Slam and his poems appear in outlets like Verse Daily, Major Jackson's The Slowdown, and The Best of Button Poetry. He is the author of Trailer Park Psalms (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) and Heavy Lead Birdsong (Write Bloody Publishing, 2010). He lives in Bellingham, Washington, with his wife and a dog he met while hiking.

This week, we continue to celebrate National Poetry Month with a conversation from the 2023 Portland Book Festival featuring Jane Hirshfield and Major Jackson with moderator Matthew Zapruder.

Tracy K. Smith discusses her latest poetry collection, To Free the Captives, in this conversation with fellow poet, Major Jackson.

We have a special episode to share with you today of the daily poetry podcast, “The Slowdown.” “The Slowdown” offers a poem and a moment of reflection in short episodes, each weekday. In this episode, host Major Jackson, reads “Chaos Theory” by Clint Smith. Major writes… “Occasionally, I try to follow the series of decisions that led me to this present, however triumphant or painful. My life wavers between fate and destiny. But then again, poetry brings me to the belief that some mysterious force is at work, below, that unveils a spiritually deeper meaning to it all.”If you'd like to hear more episodes of “The Slowdown,” you can learn more at slowdownshow.org and listen wherever you get your podcasts.

This week, we continue to celebrate National Poetry Month with a conversation from the 2023 Portland Book Festival featuring Jane Hirshfield and Major Jackson with moderator Matthew Zapruder.

Tracy K. Smith discusses her latest poetry collection, To Free the Captives, in this conversation with fellow poet, Major Jackson.

On today's show, John King chats with journalist Rebecca Renner and poet Major Jackson at Miami Book Fair.

“Billionaires can't take a week off? What's the point of having a billion dollars if they have fewer options than I do?”  –Tim Ferriss In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Tim discuss common travel fantasies, and the fears that keep people from traveling (5:00); how we can redefine what "wealth" is and live fuller lives (18:00); why keeping a healthy perspective on information intake, technology, and "efficiency" is important, both on the road and in daily life (25:00); the "beginner's mind," and tips for writing and creativity (54:00);  the merits of going on foot and "getting lost" on the road, and how this figured into Rolf's writing classes (1:17:00); notions of "success," and how to definite the notion of success in a way that enhances one's way of being in the world (1:37:00); and Rolf's recommendations for drinks, food, documentaries, books, and poetry (1:50:00); Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) is a best-selling author and podcaster. General Links: Paris Writing Workshops (Rolf's summer writing classes) Vagabonding, by Rolf Potts (audiobook) The Game Camera (short film cowritten by Rolf and Kristen Bush) Tim Ferriss on how to create a successful podcast (Deviate episode) Arnold Schwarzenegger on The Tim Ferriss Show LeBron James on The Tim Ferriss Show Cheryl Strayed on The Tim Ferriss Show Jerry Seinfeld on The Tim Ferriss Show Tortuga (bags design for long-term travel) Unbound Merino (travel clothing company) AirTreks (round-the-world flight planner) BootsnAll (online travel community) Interview Links: Van Life before #VanLife (Deviate episode) Man bites dog (aphorism about journalism) “War is God's way of teaching Americans geography” (quote) Beginner's mind (attitude of openness) Adaptation (2002 film) Anne Lamott (American author) Kurt Vonnegut (American author) The Hero's Adventure with Joseph Campbell (podcast remix) Flâneur (urban wanderer) Situationists (1960s social and artistic movement) Psychogeography (exploration strategy) Dave Chappelle (comedian) John Hughes (filmmaker) Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (American essayist) Grizzly Man (2005 documentary film) Werner Herzog Reads Curious George (satire) Con Air (1997 film) Aimee Nezhukumatathil (poet) Naomi Shihab Nye (poet) Major Jackson (poet) Donald Hall (poet) Books mentioned: Walden, by Henry David Thoreau (book) The 4-Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferriss (book) The Art of Nonfiction, by Ayn Rand (book) Writing Tools, by Roy Peter Clark (book) To Show and to Tell, by Phillip Lopate (book) Screenplay, by Syd Field (book) Story, by Robert McKee (book) Save the Cat, by Blake Snyder (book) A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway (book) Leaves of Grass, by Walk Whitman (book) Good Hope Road, by Stuart Dischell (poetry) Alien vs. Predator, by Michael Robbins (poetry) The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel's 2017 album Lumber. Note: We don't host a “comments” section, but we're happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at deviate@rolfpotts.com.

At farmers markets, you often get produce with higher nutritional value and greater flavor. Now through an online portal, you can order for pick-up or home delivery. Saleh al-Arouri, a Hamas leader who played a prominent role in the October 7 attacks, is dead. Hamas and the U.S. say Israel is behind the killing. What comes next? Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday. She faced criticism and conservative backlash over her handling of campus hate speech and allegations of plagiarism.  American poet Major Jackson celebrates two decades of poetry in his latest book called “Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022.”

The holidays are a time to reflect. What better way to celebrate than with a Philly-born, award-winning poet who hosts a podcast dedicated to poetry? Back in April, host Trenae Nuri chatted with Major Jackson, host of The Slowdown podcast, about the reasons we all need poetry.   Find the poem Major read, titled “Duck Girl,” here. Want some more Philly news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Philly. We're also on Twitter and Instagram! Follow us @citycastphilly. Have a question or just want to share some thoughts with the team? Leave us a voicemail or send us a text at 215-259-8170. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's poem is Making Things by Major Jackson. This moment of pause is a shortened version of an interview with Minnesota Public Radio's Kerri Miller. The full version of this interview is available in the Big Books & Bold Ideas podcast feed, and as a video on our YouTube channel.Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Members of MPR and supporters of The Slowdown came together in mid-October to celebrate poetry with Major Jackson. The poet was in the Twin Cities to speak at the Twin Cities Book Festival, which is where he also learned that The Slowdown — a daily poetry podcast that he hosts — had won the prestigious Signal Award for Best Daily Podcast of 2023. MPR News' Kerri Miller in Conversation with The Slowdown's Major Jackson It was on that jubilant note that he spoke with host Kerri Miller about his love for the art form of words. In the past, he has said that he finds “the writing of a poem a kind of plunging, a willful dive below the surface of who I am.” The Slowdown with Major Jackson Episode 966 Love Poem, with Birds Episode 952 Failed Essay on Privilege Episode 920 Invented Landscape Episode 852 Forestbathing (or Trees) Episode 821 I Have No Idea What's Going to Happen During their conversation, Jackson explored those ideas with Miller. He spoke about how to avoid solipsism when writing poetry, how his childhood faith taught him the musicality of words and why it's crucial that poetry be a mode of inquiry, not a collection of answers. Guest: Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, most recently “Razzle Dazzle.” He teaches writing at Vanderbilt University and is host of APM's daily poetry podcast, The Slowdown. Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS or anywhere you get your podcasts.Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations.

Tune in for the second half of our special two-part podcast featuring Major Jackson, who shared selections from his new book Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324064909) (W.W. Norton & Co, 2023) at a recent event at APR's home base, the Philadelphia Ethical Society. Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including_ 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.

Poet and host of the The Slowdown podcast Major Jackson joins us to talk about Razzle Dazzle, his collection of new and selected poems that captures two decades in the life of a poet. Last year Major also released a book his selected prose, A Beat Beyond, his meditations on poetry and its relation to […] The post Major Jackson : Razzle Dazzle appeared first on Tin House.

Major Jackson has published five books of poetry, and is also the host of the Slowdown podcast from American Public Media and the Poetry Foundation. On top of that, the Vanderbilt University professor was recently named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In this episode, Major Jackson talks about his work, his forthcoming book Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems, and his Nashville roots. But first, several new laws aimed at LGBTQ rights took effect in Tennessee this month. WPLN's Marianna Bacallao talks about their effects. Guest: Major Jackson, poet and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities Poems: How to Listen Let Me Begin Again Now That You Are Here, I Can Think

It's time to air out some of fast fashion's dirty laundry. Recently, fast-fashion retailer Shein was in the headlines over a paid influencer trip to one of its factories in China. It's also facing allegations that range from labor rights abuses to high levels of carbon emissions. Sustainable-fashion writer Alden Wicker's new book, “To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick,” documents another gritty side of the industry: the toxic chemicals used to make the clothing many companies sell. As it turns out, there aren't many laws in the U.S. to prevent those chemicals from ending up in our clothes. On the show today, Wicker explains why harmful chemicals are in our clothing, how flight attendants became a breakthrough case for toxic clothing and how more regulation could help ensure safer practices in the fashion industry. Plus, what consumers can do to reduce their exposure. Then, more on harmful chemicals: A recent study found that a type of “forever chemical” is uncomfortably common in the U.S. water supply. And, the pending merger between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard got a big push forward from a federal judge this week. We'll get into why the decision is a major blow to the Federal Trade Commission. Later, a listener shares an adorable cartoon that has Kimberly Adams written all over it. Plus, this week’s answer to the Make Me Smart question comes from Major Jackson, host of “The Slowdown” poetry podcast. Here’s everything we talked about today: “Shein, the fast-fashion giant, hits roadblocks” from The Washington Post “Are your clothes making you sick? The opaque world of chemicals in fashion” from The Guardian “The incredible story of how hatmakers really did ‘go mad’ 300 years ago” from Business Insider “Influencers are under fire for praising working conditions in Shein’s clothing factory despite abuse allegations” from NBC News “Toxic Chemicals in Shein and Other Fast Fashion Clothing” from Insider “What Is Prop 65? And Why Is There a Warning Label on This Thing I Bought?” from The New York Times “How to remove PFAS — aka forever chemicals — from drinking water” from Vox “Tap water study detects PFAS ‘forever chemicals' across the US” from U.S. Geological Survey “Microsoft Can Close Its $75 Billion Buy of Activision Blizzard, Judge Rules” from The Wall Street Journal ‘“USA Geography” Features Humorous Illustrations Of Each State” from Bored Panda “The Slowdown” podcast from APM We want to hear your answer to the Make Me Smart question. You can reach us at makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

It's time to air out some of fast fashion's dirty laundry. Recently, fast-fashion retailer Shein was in the headlines over a paid influencer trip to one of its factories in China. It's also facing allegations that range from labor rights abuses to high levels of carbon emissions. Sustainable-fashion writer Alden Wicker's new book, “To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick,” documents another gritty side of the industry: the toxic chemicals used to make the clothing many companies sell. As it turns out, there aren't many laws in the U.S. to prevent those chemicals from ending up in our clothes. On the show today, Wicker explains why harmful chemicals are in our clothing, how flight attendants became a breakthrough case for toxic clothing and how more regulation could help ensure safer practices in the fashion industry. Plus, what consumers can do to reduce their exposure. Then, more on harmful chemicals: A recent study found that a type of “forever chemical” is uncomfortably common in the U.S. water supply. And, the pending merger between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard got a big push forward from a federal judge this week. We'll get into why the decision is a major blow to the Federal Trade Commission. Later, a listener shares an adorable cartoon that has Kimberly Adams written all over it. Plus, this week’s answer to the Make Me Smart question comes from Major Jackson, host of “The Slowdown” poetry podcast. Here’s everything we talked about today: “Shein, the fast-fashion giant, hits roadblocks” from The Washington Post “Are your clothes making you sick? The opaque world of chemicals in fashion” from The Guardian “The incredible story of how hatmakers really did ‘go mad’ 300 years ago” from Business Insider “Influencers are under fire for praising working conditions in Shein’s clothing factory despite abuse allegations” from NBC News “Toxic Chemicals in Shein and Other Fast Fashion Clothing” from Insider “What Is Prop 65? And Why Is There a Warning Label on This Thing I Bought?” from The New York Times “How to remove PFAS — aka forever chemicals — from drinking water” from Vox “Tap water study detects PFAS ‘forever chemicals' across the US” from U.S. Geological Survey “Microsoft Can Close Its $75 Billion Buy of Activision Blizzard, Judge Rules” from The Wall Street Journal ‘“USA Geography” Features Humorous Illustrations Of Each State” from Bored Panda “The Slowdown” podcast from APM We want to hear your answer to the Make Me Smart question. You can reach us at makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

Major Jackson, host of APMstudio's The Slowdown, remembers the early encounters that led him to poetry.

Major Jackson, host of APMstudio's The Slowdown, considers the relationship between music and language and his own role as poet-composer.

On today's episode, we're showing up with ÉCLAT, celebrating CINQUAIN, and tying it all up with an AGLET. Poet Major Jackson, host of APM Studios' The Slowdown, joins us for a reflective Wild Card full of runnels, relish, and really good conversation. Learn more about Major at majorjackson.com and listen to The Slowdown wherever you get your podcasts.

Major Jackson is one of America's great poets. Amazing conversation about what it means to write poetry for a living.    Please fill out our listener survey. We'd love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7    Toure Show Episode 376
 
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When Major Jackson was fresh out of college, he found a Cajun restaurant in Philadelphia that had the best Chicken Big Mamou he'd ever had. When the restaurant closed he tried to recreate the recipe but it never came out quite right. That is, not until one of our producers did some digging and found the original recipe for him. This week he joins Jesse to talk about the beloved Philadelphia restaurant, Magnolia Café, and their unforgettable recipe for Chicken Big Mamou: A spicy, but comforting pasta dish full of flavor and history. Major Jackson is a poet, professor, and the host of The Slowdown a daily poetry podcast from APM Studios. You can follow him on Instagram @poetmajorjackson. If you like our show, don't forget to hit like and subscribe and leave us a review! Help support The One Recipe, and shows from APM Studios that bring people together, with a donation of any amount today.

This Earth Day, we're celebrating our planet with poetry, storytelling, and music, featuring an orchestral and choral work called “Lament of the Earth” that evokes the beauty and wonder of our planet as it speaks directly to the question, ‘where are all the people who care?' Major Jackson, Catherine Pierce, Sy Montgomery, Jay O'Callahan, Lynne Cherry and more share their poetry and stories in this Earth Day special. -- Join us for our next free Living on Earth Book Club event! “Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden” with Camille T. Dungy, online on April 26th at 7 p.m. ET. Learn more and sign up at loe.org/events.  -- And thanks to our sponsors: “Nuclear Now”, a new documentary from award-winning director Oliver Stone. Visit NuclearNowFilm.com to learn more. Oregon State University. Find out more about how Oregon State is making a difference at oregonstate.edu/believe-it. Aligned Play, with safe, beautiful, imaginative play sets and toys. Plant a tree with your purchase this Earth Month at Alignedplay.com and use promo code EARTH10 for 10% off.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On April 11, 2023, The Lannan Center hosted a reading and talk featuring poets Camille T. Dungy and Major Jackson.Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. She is also the author of the essay collections Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) and Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018), an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy's poems have been published in Best American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems, the Pushcart Anthology, Best American Travel Writing, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.Major Jackson is the author of six collections of poetry: Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems; The Absurd Man; Roll Deep; Holding Company; Hoops; and Leaving Saturn, which was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and in Best American Poetry. He served as guest editor of Best American Poetry in 2019. Jackson is a recipient of 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. Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at the University of Vermont.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

Virgie Tovar (she/her) is a well-known body positive and fat liberation activist. In this episode, she candidly shares her journey to activism from her traumatic and abusive childhood (that led her to go ‘no contact' with her family 5 years ago), to a boyfriend in her 20s who loved her exactly as she was, to her rebellious and loud activism, to now. As with all things Virgie, her storytelling, authenticity, and boldness are pure joy.Virgie Tovar is an author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity. She is a contributor for Forbes where she covers the plus-size market and how to end weight discrimination at work. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight in 2013 and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign.Tovar edited the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion and she's the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color and her new interactive book, The Body Positive Journal. Her Webby-nominated podcast, Rebel Eaters Club, is now in Season 3. Mentions in this episode: NAAFA, Flare Project, ED Parenting podcast, Moonology book, artist Gina Contreras.Please connect with Virgie on her website, Instagram, Forbes, and her newest book.This episode's poem is called “Let Me Begin Again” by Major Jackson.Hello lovely, Sophia here! Virgie Tovar is ah-mazing! And, there's bonus content for you through Apple Subscriptions or Patreon. Producing a weekly podcast takes time and resources from several wonderful people, and paid subscriptions will make continuing our work possible. My dearest wish is to also offer an honorarium to my guests, centering and supporting marginalized voices in this space. So, as you're able, please consider subscribing to “Some Extra Fat Joy: 10 Qs” where each guest answers 10 unexpected questions. Want to know what Virgie's biggest dream is?Please connect with Fat Joy on our website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). And please also give us a rating & subscribe.Our thanks to AR Media and Emily MacInnis for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

April is National Poetry Month. What better way to celebrate than with a Philly-born, award-winning poet who's hosting an award-winning podcast dedicated to poetry? Host Trenae Nuri chats with Major Jackson, host of The Slowdown podcast, about the reasons we all need poetry.  Read Major's Duck Girl poem here. Want some more Philly news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Philly. We're also on Twitter and Instagram! Follow us @citycastphilly. Have a question or just want to share some thoughts with the team? Leave us a voicemail or send us a text at 215-259-8170. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In sharing poems, we take a moment to pause and acknowledge the world's magnitude, and how poets illuminate that mystery. Join The Slowdown's new host, Major Jackson, for new episodes beginning January 23, 2023.

Today's poem is It Must Be The Supermarket in Me by Major Jackson. Major Jackson will be the new host of the Slowdown, starting on January 23rd, 2023.

Julie Potiker leads you in this loving kindness meditation where you'll relax into moments of ease. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "Let Me Begin Again," by Major Jackson.Let Me Begin Again, by Major JacksonLet me begin again as a quiet thoughtin the shape of a shell slowly examinedby a brown child on a beach at dawnstraining to see their future. Let me beginthis time knowing the drumming in my dreamsis me inheriting the earth, is morninglighting up the rivers. Let me burnmy vanities: old music in the pines, siftersof scotch, a day moon like a signatureof night. This time, let me circlethe island of my fears only once thenlive like a raging waterfall and growa magnificent mustache. Let me not ever bethe birdcage or the serrated blade orthe empty season. Dear Glacier, Dear Seaof Stars, Dear Leopards disintegratingat the outer limits of our greed; soon we willencounter you only in motivational tweets.Reader, I should have married you sooner.This time, let me not sleep like the prophet whobelieves he's seen infinity. Let me runat break-neck speeds toward sceneriesof doubt. I have no more dress rehearsalsto attend. Look closer: I am licking my lips.Let Me Begin Again, by Major JacksonGet the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart, and everywhere you listen to podcasts

Ross Gay is the author of The Book of Delights, a life-affirming collection of short lyric essays that reminds readers to appreciate so-called ordinary wonders, even during turbulent times. His several volumes of poetry include Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Be Holding, winner of the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award; and Bringing the Shovel Down. A writing professor at Indiana University, Gay has earned fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and Cave Canem. Inciting Joy explores the ways that people can inspire love and compassion by recognizing that which unites us. Major Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at the University of Vermont, a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars, and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. He is the author of five books of poetry, including The Absurd Man, Holding Company, and Leaving Saturn, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares, among numerous other periodicals and journals. Jackson's many honors include the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. A Beat Beyond is a collection of essays, interviews, and notes that delve into the intellectual and spiritual aspects of poetry in order to understand its political, social, and emotional functions. (recorded 10/27/2022)

Major Jackson returns poetry to the Napa Valley Writers Conference by Jeff Schechtman

My newly-completed Brise cardigan in 100% yak yarn is going with me everywhere. Seriously, everywhere. In this episode, I talk about felted landscape sketches in Provincetown, upcoming Slow Fashion classes at Yin Hoo studio, and a giveaway of brilliant fiber from Riot of Color. Plus, a poem by Major Jackson.

Recorded by Major Jackson for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 7, 2022. www.poets.org

Today's poem is Think of Me, Laughing by Major Jackson

Today's poem is Think of Me, Laughing by Major Jackson

In conversation with Major Jackson Garrett Hongo was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for the poetry collection The River of Heaven. His other books of poetry include Yellow Light and Coral Road. The distinguished professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon and a regular contributor to SoundStage! Ultra, Hongo also authored Volcano: A Memoir of Hawaiʻi and The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays. Writing about his lifelong passion for sound reproduction equipment, music in many formats, and the poetic voices that influenced him most, The Perfect Sound is a celebration of all things audio. The Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University and the poetry editor of The Harvard Review, Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including The Absurd Man and Leaving Saturn. His many honors include the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has published poems and essays in a wide variety of periodicals, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, and Ploughshares. (recorded 3/2/2022)

Clemonce Heard was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the winner of the 2020 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize, selected by Major Jackson. His poetry collection, Tragic City, which investigates the events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in October 2021. Heard's work has appeared or is forthcoming from Obsidian, The Missouri Review, Cimarron Review, Iron Horse, World Literature Today, Poetry, Rattle, Ruminate, and elsewhere. He earned a BFA in graphic communications from Northwestern State University, and an MFA in creative writing from Oklahoma State University. Heard was a recipient of a 2018-2019 Tulsa Artist Fellowship and was the 2019-2020 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently lives in San Antonio, Texas, and serves as the Sala Diaz artist-in-residence. Find the book and more at: https://www.clemonceheard.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: This was a lot of fun last time, so let's do another random street view poem. Randomstreetview.com is a site that randomly generates photographs of streets all over the world. Find a photo that speaks to you and write a poem about it. Next Week's Prompt: Write an apology poem. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Some friends gather and smoke at a doorway in a city. There's Malik, and Johnny Cash, and Lefty, and Jësus. And the poet, Major Jackson. They've known each other their whole lives, and they wonder who they'll turn out to be. In a moment of disclosure, Major tells his friends he wants to be a poet, astonishing them, and himself too it seems. In friendship and ribbing, in desire and teasing, this poem wonders who a person is, and what it means to hope.Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including 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. Major Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by J. Chester Johnson, the author of "Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and A Story of Reconciliation", to discuss a deliberately erased chapter in American history, as well as to offer a blueprint for how our pluralistic society can at last acknowledge—and deal with— damaged heritage and follow a path to true healing. J. Chester Johnson is a poet, essayist, and translator. His writings have been published domestically and abroad and translated into several languages. Johnson, whose work has been praised by leading writers and critics over a few decades, has authored numerous volumes of poetry, including St. Paul's Chapel & Selected Shorter Poems, second edition (published in 2010 by St. Johann Press); the collection's signature poem remains the memento card for the multitude of visitors to the chapel that survived the 9/11 terrorists' attacks at Ground Zero (more than a million poem cards have been distributed). As The New York Times noted, “‘St. Paul's Chapel' has been used for the church's memento card for more than 10 years.” American Book Review regarded the poem this way, “Johnson's ‘St. Paul's Chapel' is one of the most widely distributed, lauded, and translated poems of the current century.” The well-known poet, Major Jackson, said of the volume, St. Paul's Chapel & Selected Shorter Poems, “Undoubtedly, this is a work headed for literary permanence.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monica Minott's poetic influences, Edward Baugh, Kamau Brathwaite, Nourbese Philip, and Major Jackson, Greg Pardlo. Mentors: Professor Edward Baugh, Professor Mervyn Morris.Grew up in Kingston Jamaica, surrounded sea sun and violence;One if six children.In my earlier life she practised as an accountant have an accounting firm.She has one daughter, Stefanie Thomas Gilbert Roberts, a son Marlon Gilbert Roberts,and a grand son Axel David See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Major Jackson reads his poetry and discusses his work. Jackson is author of five collections of poetry, including 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. Jackson is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, and he serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review. On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, Jackson will give a virtual reading as a guest of the UO’s Creative Writing Program. Register: http://crwr.uoregon.edu

Recorded by Major Jackson for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on April 26, 2021. www.poets.org

Hear from the two YCP Student Senate President candidates and after the first ever live episode with poet Major Jackson.

Poet Kevin Young talks about "African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song" and Tracy K. Smith, Major Jackson and Gregory Pardlo share their poems.

DuEwa talks the 26th anniversary of the classic #hiphop album Blowout Comb by #DigablePlanets. She discusses recent support of HBCUs' (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) by entertainers and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott. DuEwa dives into recent news of several rappers' controversial involvement in promoting the 2020 election. She discusses breast cancer awareness month as a note on #selfcare. DuEwa ends with a poem titled, “On Disappearing” by Major Jackson. #Nerdacity #CultureTalk #news #hiphop #HBCUs #education #DuEwa #podcasts Tweet me @nerdacitypod1! Visit anchor.fm/duewafrazier/support and www.duewaworld.com. DISCLAIMER: This podcast features the opinions of DuEwa , opinions of her guests, and also other cited news bites. This podcast does not promote or represent any political party or school of thought other than to comment on news and events from the hosts' point of view. This podcast also does not represent the views or opinions of any employers or organizers DuEwa may work for or with. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/duewafrazier/support

Mary & Wyatt settle in for a conversation about social media.  They talk about the effects of social media on our relationships and mental health, and the nature of debate in our age of constant connectivity. They even disagree with each other! Also on the agenda: the Dillo Dairy corporation is in deep trouble, Mindhunter, and poems by Ross Gay and Major Jackson. 

[CW: Suicide; self-harm]Mary & Wyatt, freshly clean and dry from a camping trip, talk all about mania: symptoms of manic episodes, how to "baby-proof your house" when it comes to mania, and how they've each recovered from manic episodes in the past. Also on the agenda: why Wyatt hates brushing their teeth, dogs that bark like wind chimes, Teddy Roosevelt's obsession with killing animals, and poems by Major Jackson and Ashlee Haze. 

My program last week presented poems by New England poets who considered some of the complex matters that are part of life in urban settings. Today I move to more rural settings and present equally complex poems by Vermont poets: Ellen Bryant Voight, John Engels, Major Jackson, Jay Parini, and Verandah Porche.

Writing poetry about the environment can be a lot of things. In the first of 2 parts, we drop in on Orion Magazine's environmental writer's workshop and learn from distinguished poet Major Jackson. Jackson intertwines the rural, the urban, and the cultural into his work.

Writing poetry about the environment can be a lot of things. In the first of 2 parts, we drop in on Orion Magazine's environmental writer's workshop and learn from distinguished poet Major Jackson. Jackson intertwines the rural, the urban, and the cultural into his work.

Today's poem is Mighty Pawns by Major Jackson.

Jasminne Mendez is an Afro-Latina poet, educator and award winning author. She received her B.A. in English Literature and her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Houston. Mendez has had poetry and essays published by or forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Acentos Review, Crab Creek Review, Texas Review, La Galeria, Label Me Latino/a, Gulf Coast, Bird’s Thumb, The Rumpus and others. Her first multi-genre memoir Island of Dreams (Floricanto Press, 2013) was awarded Best Young Adult Latino Focused Book by the International Latino Book Awards in 2015. Her poetry and essays have been named finalists and honorable mention for several awards including the Rose Metal Press Chapbook prize and the Barry Lopez Creative Non-Fiction prize. Recently she won the Cogswell College Magazine Poetry Prize judged by Major Jackson. She is the co-founder of Tintero Projects: A Reading & Writing Workshop Series, an organization that seeks to build and promote emerging and established Latinx writers in Houston. She is a 2017 Canto Mundo Fellow and an MFA candidate in the creative writing program at the Rainier Writer's Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. … Continue reading → The post Jasminne Mendez – dicusses her new book, “Night Blooming Jasmin(n)e”, Afro-Dominican roots and Journey with Scleroderma and Lupus appeared first on Bootleg Like Jazz.

Time wealth, and the poetics of time

Ken is joined by Sgt. Major Jackson, a man who has played a large role in Ken's life since the time he asked him one of the most important questions he ever received. In this episode he discusses what it means to be a leader of men, a man of service, hard work and how it pays off, being positive and patient, experiences of racism and adapting to civilian life. “If you truly want to help others you need to keep learning…” SGM Corey B. Jackson SGM Corey B. Jackson's military career totals more than 24 years. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in October 1986 in Kansas City, MO. He served 8 years at which time he was honorably discharged. After discharge, he attended college and worked in the civilian sector. SGM Jackson enlisted in the Army National Guard in March 1999 serving there a total of 16 years, retiring from active service in July 2015. SGM Jackson' duty assignments throughout his career include, Rifleman, Rifle Team Leader, Supply Sergeant, Recruiting and Retention NCO, Instructor/Writer, Small Group Leader, Instructor Team Chief, Mentor/Trainer Team NCOIC, First Sergeant, Deputy Commandant, Branch Sergeant Major and Command Reserve Component Sergeant Major. SGM Jackson's career includes 5 deployments. 4 with the Marine Corps and 1 with the Army. These deployments include two combat deployments, in support of Operations Desert Shield/Storm and Operation Enduring Freedom. SGM Jacksons' professional development includes the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy, the First Sergeants Course, Advanced Non-Commissioned Officer Course, Basic NCO Course, Marine Corps Basic NCO Course, Staff and Faculty Development Course, Small Group Instructor Training Course, Basic Recruiter Course, Reserve Component Transition NCO Course, ARNG Battalion Career Counselor Course, Liaison/IADT Managers Course, 79T Conversion Course and Combat Engineer Course. SGM Jackson holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Post University. SGM Jackson's personal decorations include, the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal and Marine Corps Combat Action Ribbon. Facebook: @KennethCheadleCoach Instagram: @kennethcheadle Linkedin: Kenneth-Cheadle The Adverse Effect Podcast with Ken Cheadle is proudly produced by Podcast Wagon

‘There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face today… that is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war.' The words of Martin Luther King in 1967 when he visited Newcastle upon Tyne to receive an honorary degree. Words that underlie a discussion about poetry and protest which features in the festival marking the 50th anniversary of that visit. The poets Jackie Kay, Fred D'Aguiar and Major Jackson join Shahidha Bari and an audience at Newcastle University to explore the nature of protest poetry and to launch a poetry anthology celebrating the spirit of Dr King. Producer: Zahid Warley.MAJOR JACKSON Going to Meet the Man As if one day, a grand gesture of the brain, an expired subscription to silence, a decision raw as a concert of habaneros on the lips: a renewal to decency like a trash can smashing a storefront or the shattering glass face of a time-clock: where once a man forced to the ground, a woman spread-eagled against a wall, where a shot into the back of an unarmed teen: finally, a decisive spark, the engine of action, this civilian standoff: on one side, a barricade of shields, helmets, batons, and pepperspray: on the other, a cocktail of fire, all that is just and good"Going to Meet the Man" originally published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. in Holding Company,© Major Jackson, 2010 The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King edited by Carolyn Forché and Jackie Kay is published by Bloodaxe. Photo: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. signs the Degree Roll At Newcastle University after receiving an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree, Newcastle, England, November 14, 1967. Credit: Getty Images

Major Jackson reads three poems from his latest collection Roll Deep: "Cries and Whispers," "Mighty Pawns," and "Cordoba: Mezquita". The Drum's Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur introduces the poems.

Major Jackson joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Derek Walcott’s “In Italy” and a poem of his own.

The Spring 2010 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Major Jackson, the author of Hoops and Leaving Saturn and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. Grace Schulman, Poet and Distinguished Professor at Baruch College, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 16, 2010, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

The Spring 2010 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Major Jackson, the author of Hoops and Leaving Saturn and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. Grace Schulman, Poet and Distinguished Professor at Baruch College, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 16, 2010, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

The Spring 2010 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Major Jackson, the author of Hoops and Leaving Saturn and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. Grace Schulman, Poet and Distinguished Professor at Baruch College, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 16, 2010, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

The Spring 2010 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Major Jackson, the author of Hoops and Leaving Saturn and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. Grace Schulman, Poet and Distinguished Professor at Baruch College, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 16, 2010, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

Eamon Grennan: Matter of Fact (Graywolf)Major Jackson: Hoops (Norton)Pattiann Rogers: Wayfare (Penguin) Three poets join us on Bookworm to celebrate Walt Whitman. They read from Leaves of Grass, describe Whitman's influence on their work, read their own poems, and, in general, paint a raucous, friendly, informal portrait of the Good Gray Poet — America's greatest.