Poet Major Jackson will read his work at Â鶹¹û¶³ March 14 as part of the Birmingham Area Consortium for Higher Education (BACHE) Visiting Writers Series. The reading, in the Howard Room of University Center, will begin at 7 p.m. and conclude with audience Q&A and a reception.
Jackson’s poetry is filled with dense imagery, sensory experience and geographical movement. His poems often explore the experience of moving through the world as a gendered and racially defined body. In his most recent book of poetry, Roll Deep, his narrators roam the world: a cruise on the Aegean Sea, a walk through his native Philadelphia, a car through war-torn Somalia. In each of his poems, the individual scans the landscapes for signs of a shared humanity and a humanistic tradition that spans history, geography, race and gender. These are compelling and rich poems by a writer who expresses exuberance for what language can do.
BACHE is a partnership among the five four-year colleges and universities in the greater Birmingham area: Birmingham-Southern College, Miles College, Â鶹¹û¶³, University of Montevallo, and University of Alabama at Birmingham.