Tues 2/17 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street

The Lewis Center’s Program in Creative Writing presents the annual Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, which provides an opportunity for students, as well as all in the greater Princeton region, to hear and meet outstanding contemporary writers. All readings are free and open to the public and are followed by a book signing.

Didi Jackson is the author of the poetry collections My Infinity and Moon Jar. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, The New Yorker, and Oxford American among other journals and magazines.  She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University. 

Major Jackson is the author of six volumes of poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The poetry editor of the Harvard Review and the host of the podcast The Slowdown, Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

This event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.