Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson, PhD, Yale, is a UC Foundation and UTNAA Professor and teaches poetry and humanities in UTC's interdisciplinary honors program, and also teaches writing at Vermont College and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. He is the author of nine books of poems, a book of translations from Slovene, two critical books and several chapbooks, including Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004) and Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003). He has won Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA, NEH, Pushcart, and other Fellowships, and the Order of Freedom Medal for Humanitarian and literary work in the Balkans.
For more on Richard Jackson
- Visit his personal home page
- Visit his UTC home page
- Bio page on UTC Tennessee Writers Project
- Papers from the Poetry Miscellany
- See Jackson's creative writing notes
- See his essay Language-driven Poetry: An Introduction to the Principle of Generating Poems at the Cortland Review. This site also contains a selection of his poems.
- "No Turn on Red" at the Marlboro Review.
Meacham Readings

- 1. Select a reading (Requires QuickTime)
- Friday, February 29, 2008
- Friday, October 26, 2007
- Friday, February 23, 2007
- Friday, October 06, 2006
- Friday, March 31, 2006