Major Jackson - The Fate of the Land is the Fate of Man

This episode, and the one that follows, grew out of the Orion Magazine's environmental writer's workshop held annually at Omega. Fiction authors, non-fiction authors and poets mingle with the aspiring during this weekend and I became fascinated by the work of poet Major Jackson, who interweaves the rural, the urban and the cultural into his work to profound effect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices