{"id":6961,"date":"2026-04-20T17:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=6961"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:46:04","slug":"major-jacksons-poems-you-should-know-by-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/major-jacksons-poems-you-should-know-by-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Jackson&#8217;s poems we should know by heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6963\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/MajorJackson-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In a recent feature for the\u00a0<em>New York Times Style Magazine<\/em>, Director of Creative Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/bio\/major-jackson\/\"><strong>Major Jackson<\/strong><\/a> and fellow poet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/frederick-seidel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frederick Seidel<\/a> name six poems we should all know by heart. The list includes works by 20th-century poets Lucille Clifton, Galway Kinnell, Philip Larkin, and Rainer Maria Rilke and classics by Milton and Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/04\/17\/t-magazine\/poems-memorize-favorite.html?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The interactive feature is available at the\u00a0<em>Times.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6962\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-124642.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"991\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-124642.png 991w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-124642-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-124642-768x416.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/news\/\">MORE NeWS<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent feature for the\u00a0New York Times Style Magazine, Director of Creative Writing Major Jackson and fellow poet Frederick Seidel name six poems we should all know by heart. The list includes works by 20th-century poets Lucille Clifton, Galway Kinnell, Philip Larkin, and Rainer Maria Rilke and classics by Milton and Shakespeare. The interactive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":6964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[5,4],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-20-125359.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6970,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions\/6970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}