Major Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green & Gold Professor at the University of Vermont and poetry editor of The Harvard Review. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company  and Hoops, both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. Free and open to the public. Presented by the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing & Literature Program. Major Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green & Gold Professor at the University of Vermont and poetry editor of The Harvard Review. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company  and Hoops, both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. Free and open to the public. Presented by the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing & Literature Program.