{"id":13216,"date":"2020-07-01T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=13216"},"modified":"2020-07-01T00:24:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:24:15","slug":"a-poem-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=13216","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for Now &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Major-Jackson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Major-Jackson.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Major-Jackson-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Major-Jackson-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>House In the World<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>I\u2019m looking for a house<br>In the world<br>Where the white shadows<br>Will not fall.<br>There is no such house,<br>Dark brothers,<br>No such house<br>At all.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br> Originally Published: March 25th, 2008..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Major Jackson<\/strong>&nbsp;(born in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania\">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/a>) is an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_poet\">American poet<\/a>&nbsp;and professor. He is the author of five collections of poetry: The Absurd Man (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W.W._Norton\">W.W. Norton<\/a>, 2020), Roll Deep (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W.W._Norton\">W.W. Norton<\/a>, 2015), Holding Company (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W.W._Norton\">W.W. Norton<\/a>, 2010) and Hoops (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W.W._Norton\">W.W. Norton<\/a>, 2006), finalist for an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NAACP\">NAACP<\/a>&nbsp;Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Major_Jackson#cite_note-ccpoets-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Major-Jackson-z-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Major-Jackson-z-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Major-Jackson-z-2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Court-Painter-Major-Jackson-z-2-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House In the World I\u2019m looking for a houseIn the worldWhere the white shadowsWill not fall.There is no such house,Dark brothers,No such houseAt all. Originally Published: March 25th, 2008.. Major Jackson&nbsp;(born in&nbsp;Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an&nbsp;American poet&nbsp;and professor. He is the author of five collections of poetry: The Absurd Man (W.W. Norton, 2020), Roll Deep (W.W. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=13216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Poem for Now &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13216"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13226,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216\/revisions\/13226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}