Major Jackson: Major Jackson

By: Kohli, Amor; MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2010 Summer; 35 (2): 177-198.

Callaloo, Volume 30, Number 4, Fall 2007, pp. 1119-1121

American Poetry Review, Sep/Oct2007, Vol. 36 Issue 5, p19-25. This article presents a personal narrative reflecting on the author's interactions with racism in literature and poetry. He talks about poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren and how Warren never envisioned a black readership, then or today.

Poetry, Jan2007, Vol. 189 Issue 4, p297-309. This article considers whether poetry has a social function. According to some authors, poetry's function depends on what and whose poetry is being discussed. On the other hand, some people think that focusing on the social utility of poetry is parallel to concentrating merely on the content of the composition. There are also those who consider poetry as not having any function beyond its own construction (Jackson's is one essay)

Ploughshares, Winter2010/2011, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p43

Harvard Review, No. 33 (2007), p. 45

Ploughshares, Winter2010/2011, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p42

Callaloo, Summer2001, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p770

New Republic, 5/6/2009, Vol. 240 Issue 7, p42

American Poetry Review, Mar/Apr2010, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p37

New Orleans Review, 2009, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p12

American Poetry Review, Mar/Apr2010, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p37

Poetry, Mar2006, Vol. 187 Issue 6, p481-483

Harvard Review, No. 33 (2007), p. 44

Callaloo, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Autumn, 1999), p. 986

Harvard Review, No. 33 (2007), p. 42

New Orleans Review, 2009, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p13

Callaloo, Summer2001, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p772

Callaloo, Spring2002, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p406

Harvard Review, No. 33 (2007), p. 43