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Major Jackson

Major Jackson is the author of Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems and the editor of the cookbook and poetry anthology, A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Poems with a Side of Soup. A recipient of fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, Major Jackson is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. The inaugural recipient of the Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry from Yale Library, he is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Website: www.majorjackson.com
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    National Poetry Month: Two Poems

    Loyalty Oath Let evening winds carry a tsunami of scents to her sleep, and let him with a smile like a paperweight and a craggy face of bark find his way, let the back door of the flower truck passing…