{"id":1443,"date":"2023-08-14T20:51:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/major-jackson\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T23:07:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:07:54","slug":"major-jackson","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/major-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Major Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of six volumes of poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The poetry editor of the\u00a0<em>Harvard Review<\/em>\u00a0and the host of the podcast\u00a0<em>The Slowdown<\/em>, Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His new collection is\u00a0<em>Razzle Dazzle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1445\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-199x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-199x300.jpeg 199w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-680x1024.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-768x1157.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-1019x1536.jpeg 1019w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-1359x2048.jpeg 1359w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-1140x1718.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-920x1386.jpeg 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-575x866.jpeg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-380x573.jpeg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1-800x1205.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Jackson_Razzle-Dazzle_9781324064909-Gina-Savoy-copy-scaled-1.jpeg 1699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Jackson\u00a0is the author of six volumes of poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1444,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1443\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}