Poet Major Jackson To Read at Campus

Major Jackson, whose volume of poetry Leaving Saturn was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, will be the first guest in the spring Writers Speak Wednesdays series of free author talks and readings open to the public at Stony Brook Southampton, presenting his work in the Radio Lounge on the second floor of Chancellors Hall. 

In addition to Leaving Saturn, Jackson is the author of two other volumes of poetry: Holding Company and Hoops. He is the Richard Dennis Green & Gold Professor at the University of Vermont and poetry editor of The Harvard Review.