BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2c98f902-fe20-4ddd-929c-ecfd01613fef@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T133923Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T210000 SUMMARY:Major Jackson | A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Poems with a Side of Soup\, Celebrating Community\, Friendship\, and Resilience DESCRIPTION:Phoenix Books is excited to welcome poet Major Jackson to Pho enix Books Burlington on Tuesday\, November 17 at 7:00 PM for an evening of conversation about his latest anthology\, A Bowl of Goodness: Nouris hing Poems with a Side of Soup\, Celebrating Community\, Friendship\, an d Resilience! Major Jackson will be joined by reading partners Maria Hum mel\, John Gennari\, and Senator Rocket. Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry\, most recently Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems\ , recipient of the inaugural Patricia Willis Prize from Yale Library. Hi s edited volumes include Best American Poetry 2019\, Renga for Obama\, a nd Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. Former host of The Slowdown Podcast\, from American Public Media\, he is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, John S. Guggenheim F oundation\, and National Endowment of the Arts. Jackson lives in Nashvil le\, Tennessee\, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in th e Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as poetry editor of The Harvard Review. Major Jackson is an elected member of the American Acad emy of Arts. About the book: Poetry and soup both offer sustenance and c omfort. And yet\, the secret ingredient to every great meal is not what we see on the plate\, but who we see around the table. This anthology fe atures poems by today’s best poets that embody the idea of nourishment\, comfort\, and connection across cultures and generations. Among the poe ms are 24 of Major’s own favorite soup recipes: from apple-parsnip to gu mbo\, borscht to bouillabaisse\, there’s something to tickle and warm al l tastebuds. Sprinkled throughout are side-dishes of soup-inspired stori es by award-winning writers and chefs\, including Ann Patchett and chef Jim Huntington of Maple Soul. Other contributors include Garrett Hongo\, Jane Hirshfield\, Pablo Neruda\, Natasha Tretheway\, Paul Muldoon\, Rit a Dove\, Ilya Kaminsky\, Kwame Dawes\, Gary Snyder\, Aimee Nezhukumatath il\, Kevin Young\, and more Reading Partners: Maria Hummel is a novelist and poet. Her novel\, Still Lives\, was a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sun shine Book Club pick\, Book of the Month pick\, and BBC Culture Best Boo k of 2018\, and has been optioned for television and translated into mul tiple languages. She is also the author of Lesson in Red\; Motherland\, a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year\; and Horse and Fire\, winner of the APR/Honickman Poetry Prize. She has worked and taught at The Mus eum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles\; Stanford University\; and the Un iversity of Vermont. She lives in Vermont with her husband and sons. Joh n Gennari is professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies a t the University of Vermont. He is the author of Flavor and Soul: Italia n America and Its African American Edge and Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz a nd Its Critics. Senator Rocket is a storyteller and the founder of Eat V ermont. An alumnus of The Putney School and Middlebury College and a Ver mont Law School Graduate\, he's passionate about the power of storytelli ng to build empathy and relentless in his pursuit to foster stronger con nections across Vermont. Noah Warren is a poet and critic. His books of poetry are The Complete Stories\, published by Copper Canyon in 2021\, a nd The Destroyer in the Glass\, chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2016 Yal e Series of Younger Poets. His poetry has been recognized by a Wallace S tegner Fellowship and awards from Yale and UC Berkeley\, and has been su pported by the James Merrill House and the Hawthornden Foundation. He ho lds a PhD in English from Berkeley and serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont. DATE: Tuesday\, November 17\, 2026 at 7:00 PM LOCATION: Phoenix Books Burlington\, 89 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT TICKETS: Tickets are FREE. Phoenix Books has adopted an RSVP-based s ystem\, and you can RSVP through the Seven Days Tickets website. Your RS VP grants you a $3.00 off coupon for A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Poem s with a Side of Soup\, Celebrating Community\, Friendship\, and Resilie nce by Major Jackson. BOOKS: Copies of A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Po ems with a Side of Soup\, Celebrating Community\, Friendship\, and Resil ience by Major Jackson will be available for purchase at the event.\n\nT ickets: https://sevendaystickets.com/e/major-jackson-a-bowl-of-goodness- nourishing-poems\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/2c98f902-fe20-4ddd -929c-ecfd01613fef LOCATION:Phoenix Books Burlington\, 191 Bank St\, Burlington\, VT 05401 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/2c98f902-fe20-4ddd-929c-ecfd01613fe f STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR