{"id":101487,"date":"2026-10-14T03:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=101487"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:39:12","slug":"alumnus-marcus-jackson-to-read-from-poetry-and-photography-collection-oct-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_14_2026\/alumnus-marcus-jackson-to-read-from-poetry-and-photography-collection-oct-22","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Marcus Jackson to Read From Poetry and Photography Collection Oct. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award-winning poet and photographer Marcus Jackson, a Toledo native and UToledo alumnus, will read from his latest work, \u201cLove\u2019s Austere and Lonely Offices,\u201d on Thursday, Oct. 22, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Carlson Library Room 1005.<\/p>\n

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UToledo alumnus Marcus Jackson, an award-winning poet and photographer.<\/p><\/div>\n

The book\u2019s title comes from a line in Robert Hayden\u2019s celebrated poem \u201cThose Winter Sundays.\u201d In it, Jackson combines his street photography with poetry to explore the social isolation, protests and survival that marked Black experience and existence during the turbulent years of 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n

Jackson\u2019s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. His debut full-length collection, \u201cNeighborhood Register,\u201d was released in 2011, followed by \u201cPardon My Heart\u201d in 2018.<\/p>\n

After earning a bachelor\u2019s degree from UToledo, Jackson continued his poetry studies in New York University\u2019s graduate creative writing program and as a Cave Canem fellow.<\/p>\n

Admission is free to the public event. Visitor parking requires payment or a permit.<\/p>\n

Visit the ParkUToledo website or contact the Department of English Language and Literature at englishdept@utoledo.edu<\/a> to request a visitor pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"Headshot<\/a>

The Toledo native\u2019s latest book pairs his street photography with poems exploring the Black experience during 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":101488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101490,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101487\/revisions\/101490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}