BRATTLEBORO — University of Vermont professor Major Jackson will read from his new book, “Roll Deep,” and discuss how poetry not only serves as a record of our existence but also enlarges us as human beings, on April 6, at 7 p.m., at Brooks Memorial Library.
His talk, “An Evening with Poet Major Jackson,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public.
Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry: “Holding Company” (W.W. Norton, 2010) and “Hoops” (W.W. Norton, 2006), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and “Leaving Saturn” (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
The 2015-16 First Wednesday series at Brooks will conclude May 4 with “What the Buddhists Teach: Finding Clarity in Everyday Life,” with author Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath.