Civitella Ranieri invites you to a reading by Didi Jackson and Major Jackson (CRF 2024) on Wednesday, June 4th at the Civitella Castle. We will welcome you with light refreshments at 6:00 PM. RSVP here.
Didi Jackson, USA
Didi Jackson is the author of the poetry collections My Infinity (2024) and Moon Jar (2020). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, The New Yorker, and World Literature Today among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, The Slow Down with Tracy K. Smith, and Together in Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a Dean’s Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where she teaches creative writing.
Major Jackson (CRF 2024), USA
Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems. He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson edited by Amor Kohli. A recipient of fellowships from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, John S. Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Major Jackson 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. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review. From 2023-2025, he hosted the award-winning podcast The Slowdown. Major Jackson was recently named the inaugural recipient of the Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry from Yale Library.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
6:00 PM Welcome cocktail
6:15 PM Presentations
Location
Civitella Ranieri, Via U. Corning 1, 06019, Umbertide PG