Richard Jackson

Favorite Quotes:

Without Contraries is no Progression. (William Blake)

For where would we be

If love were not stronger than poetry

And poetry not stronger than love. (Miroslav Holub)

Author of 9 books of poems, most recently Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House, 2004) Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2003), Heartwall (UMass, 2000 Juniper Prize), Svetovi Narazen (Slovenia, 2001). A limited edition small press book, Falling Stars: A Collection of Monologues (Flagpond Press, 2002) and Richard Jackson: Greatest Hits (2004), and several chapbooks of translations. His translation of Slovene poet Alexsander Persolja's Potovanje Sonca (Journey of the Sun), appeared in 2007. His own poems have been translated and published in fifteen languages. He has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry: The Fire Under the Moon and Double Vision: Four Slovenian Poets (Aleph, '93) and edits an eastern European Chap book series and Poetry Miscellany. He is also the author of a book of criticism, Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry (Agee Prize), and Acts of Mind: Interviews With Contemporary American Poets (Choice Award). His several dozen essays and reviews have appeared in Georgia Review, Verse, Contemporary Literature, Boundary 2, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and numerous other journals, as well as anthologies such as The Planet on the Table: Writers Reading (2003) and John Ashbery (ed. Harold Bloom, 2004). In addition, he has written introductions to books of poems by four different Slovene Poets for various presses, and a special Slovene issue of Hunger Mountain (2003), two American poets, and two anthologies of Slovene poetry. He has also edited a special 50 page section of Poetry International (2004) on William Matthews with an introductory essay. In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Freedom Medal for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans by the President of Slovenia and has received Guggenheim, NEA, NEH, 2 Witter-Bynner and Fulbright Fellowships, and 5 Pushcart Prizes. He founded and directs the Meacham Writers' Workshops at UTC. Winner of teaching awards at UT-Chattanooga and Vermont College MFA, named UC Foundation Professor in 1983 and UTNAA Professor in June 2007, he is the 2009 AWP George Garrett Award winner from the Associated Writing Programs for his teaching, mentoring and arts organizing.

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