River City Writers Series Hosts Richard Jackson Oct. 9
For release: October 3, 2003
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Richard Jackson, poet and UC Foundation Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, will read from his work Thursday, Oct. 9, at the University of Memphis. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will be from 4 to 5 p.m. in Patterson Hall, Room 456.

Jackson is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems. His other collections include Svetovi Narazen, Heartwall, Heart's Bridge, Alive All Day, Worlds Apart and Part of the Story. He has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry, and his own poems have been translated into a dozen languages. Jackson currently is working on a translation of Pavese's last poems, and with two other translators, on an edition of the Italian poet Pascoli.

He has served with the PEN Sarajevo Committee and worked with groups to raise funds for refugees of the Balkan wars. In 2000, the president of Slovenia awarded Jackson the Order of Freedom Medal for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans. Among his many other awards, he has received five Pushcart Prizes and Guggenheim, NEA, NEH, and Witter-Bynner Fellowships.

Jackson's appearance is sponsored by the River City Writers Series. For more information, call Cary Holladay, assistant professor and director of the series, at 678-4405.

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