Rhyme, meter and sound are Major Jackson’s tools of the trade. Look at any of the poet’s four collections to see ruminations on art, literature, music, human interaction and ordinary life hashed out in verse. Through the power of the pen, the University of Vermont professor has earned a Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award and a position as poetry editor for the Harvard Review. The Philadelphia native’s latest collection, Roll Deep, released in August, explores war and person-to-person intimacy with humor and evocative language. Lit lovers lend their ears for a reading at Phoenix Books Burlington.
