Didi Jackson’s Tennessee Book Award to be celebrated
Humanities Tennessee will celebrate Didi Jackson, the recipient of the 2025 Tennessee Book Award for Poetry.
The reading and reception will take place Saturday, May 2, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at Parnassus Books in Nashville.
Didi Jackson is an assistant professor of English and the author of the poetry collections My Infinity and Moon Jar. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Bomb, The New Yorker, and World Literature Today among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, and The Slow Down with Tracy K. Smith. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Most recently she completed her certification as a Tennessee Naturalist.