Major Jackson

Major Jackson is a poet and professor at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems. His 2002 collection Leaving Saturn was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

Ferguson

Once there was a boy who thought it a noble idea to lie down in the middle of the street and sleep. . . .

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Washington Square Park

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2014 Poetry Contest Winner: francine j. harris

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Countee Cullen and the Racial Mountain

The life of the black poet.

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Life During Wartime

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Myth

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Poet’s Sampler: Matthew Dickman

  • Matthew Dickman
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