# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Poetry Reading: Major Jackson with Kirun Kapur
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 02 Aug, 2026 at 03:00 pm – Sun, 02 Aug, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music, poetry, and community to the front lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This reading is presented in partnership with the New England Poetry Club.

Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (Blue Flower Arts, 2023), The Absurd Man (W.W. Norton & Company, 2020), Roll Deep (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015), Holding Company (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010), Hoops (W.W. Norton & Company, 2006), and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia Press, 2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. Jackson’s edited volumes include Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner), Renga for Obama (Harvard Review Monographs, 2017), and the Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems (2013). He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson, edited by Amor Kohli (University of Michigan Press, 2022). 

A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson was awarded a Pushcart Prize and a Whiting Award and received honors from the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Orion magazine, the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry magazine, Poetry London, and ZYZZYVA. 

Major Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He hosts The Slowdown podcast, a partnership between the Poetry Foundation and American Public Media, and is poetry editor of the Harvard Review.

Kirun Kapur‘s first collection, Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist, was awarded the 2013 Antivenom Poetry Award and was a finalist for the Mass Book Prize. Her newest book, Women in the Waiting Room, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.  Kapur was awarded the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry, the Nazim Hikmet Prize, and the Glenna Luschei Award, as well as fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell Colony. She serves as the editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal, and teaches at Amherst College, where she is the director of the Creative Writing Program.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/poetry-reading-major-jackson-with-kirun-kapur/200030289019541
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, festivals, fine-arts, crafts, summer-camps, music-festivals
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 46

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02138
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- **long**: -71.12637
- **full address**: 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02138

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Poetry Reading: Major Jackson with Kirun Kapur being held?
  - **A:** Poetry Reading: Major Jackson with Kirun Kapur takes place on Sun, 02 Aug, 2026 at 03:00 pm to Sun, 02 Aug, 2026 at 04:00 pm at 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02138.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Poetry Reading: Major Jackson with Kirun Kapur?
  - **A:** Poetry Reading: Major Jackson with Kirun Kapur is organized by Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Poetry Reading: Major Jackson with Kirun Kapur is ideal for festival lovers, culture enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a vibrant, immersive community experience. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Cambridge, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Poetry Reading: Major Jackson with Kirun Kapur sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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