Ed Pavlic, associate professor of English and director of Africana Studies, has written an essay, “Open the Unusual Door: The Dark Window in Yusef Komunyakaa's Early Poems,” that will appear in the fall Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. The special edition is dedicated to Komunyakaa's work.
Six of Pavlic's poems, called “One Word for Rachel Corrie,” are in the current issue of Crab Orchard Review. The poems are written in the voice of the American woman and International Solidarity Organization peace worker who was crushed by a bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003.
In the fall issue of Cross-Cultural Poetics, Pavlic's piece, “Phoneme Death,” explores the implications of radical changes in human sensory capacity that occur in infancy.