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Major Jackson featured in Vanderbilt Research News

Posted by on Friday, January 30, 2026 in faculty, news.

Director of Creative Writing and Department of English Professor Major Jackson provides his writing expertise in “Devouring the Art of Language.”

“Lyric poetry has as its material the dazzling complexity and beauty of raw emotions and thought, which can be awkward and embarrassing,” Jackson said. “My classes are about normalizing the conversations we have with ourselves while learning to give them shape.”

Read the full article in Vanderbilt Research News.

Major Jackson signs copies of Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems, 2002–2022, a collection spanning two decades of his work, during the “American Humor” event at Vanderbilt’s New York City campus. (Barry Williams)
Major Jackson signs copies of Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems, 2002–2022, a collection spanning two decades of his work, during the “American Humor” event at Vanderbilt’s New York City campus. (Barry Williams)