About this episode
Major Jackson is a poet, author, and professor who is the recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Academy of American Poets, Fine Arts works Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, he has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and the Witter Bynner foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, awarded the Pushcart Prize, has been published in American Poetry Review, the New Yorker, Paris Review, Orion Magazine, is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review, and is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities and Director of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University. We touch on stewardship, curiosity being emblematic of being human, art in a time of upheaval, human expression, AI, art monsters, and a whole lot more.Get more access and support this show by subscribing to our Patreon, right here.Links:Major JacksonEp 96 - Maggie SmithParnassusPeabody InstituteRobert FrostPhiladelphia Museum of ArtMarcel Duchamp“A Love Supreme”Ezra Klein & Rebecca Winthrop - ‘Rethinking Education’Humanities TennesseeMichaela Anne - “Is This What Mama Meant?”Hunter S ThompsonMichael RuhlmanClick here to watch this conversation on YouTube.Social Media:
