Printable view of Richard Jackson

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Chattanooga, TN

Tennessee US

Email:

svobodni@aol.com

Bio:

He is the author of ten books of poems including Resonance ( 2010) (Eric Hoffer Award), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004) and Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003). He has also published two books of translations, Last Voyage: The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli from Italian (2010) and Alexandar Persolja's Journey of the Sun from Slovene (2008). He is also the author of two critical books, Acts of Mind: Conversations with American Poets (Choice Award) and Dismantling Time in Contemporary Poetry (Agee Award Winner), and has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry, as well as the journal Poetry Miscellany. His work has been translated into fifteen languages and has appeared in The Best American Poems, among other collections.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Lawrence

Raised in:

Lawrence, MA

Prizes won:

Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, Witter-Bynner Fellow, NEA fellow, NEH Fellow, AWP George Garret Award, Order of Freedom Medal by the President of Slovenia

Identifies as:

Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Teachers

Teenagers