Summer Salons - Poet Major Jackson with Poet Jane Hirshfield

Inspiring salon-style conversations and workshops at the Fine Arts Work Center

We are excited to announce a brand new series: Summer Salons. For these events, we’re inviting two leading lights in the arts and culture world to the Work Center to share their insights, experience, and knowledge in a weekend of conversation, learning, and community.

We’re hosting four summer salon weekends this summer, and we have assembled an incredible line-up of leading voices who have shaped arts and letters in the United States and worldwide.

Acclaimed Poet
Major Jackson
with Award-winning Poet
Jane Hirshfield

Essential Companions: A Conversation in Poems

5:00 PM: Reception
Daniel A. Mullin Courtyard

6:00 - 7:30 PM: Salon Conversation
Stanley Kunitz Common Room

In this dynamic conversation, Jane Hirshfield and Major Jackson will discuss poems by others that have been the compasses and magnetic poles of their lives. In a considered exchange about the reach and sustenance of poetry, they will read poems of personal significance and broad engagement, poems that forge connections, poems that grieve and celebrate, and poems that ponder the unknown. In so doing, these two friends will begin to hint as to why poetry remains an enduring and evolving art of great human magnitude.

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