Poet Ed Pavlic, who taught English and Africana studies at Union from 1997 to 2006, will read from his recent collection of prose poems, “Winners Have Yet to be Announced:A Song for Donny Hathaway,” Monday, Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 215 of the Visual Arts Building.
“Winners Have Yet to be Announced” (University of Georgia Press, 2008) uses imagined conversations and interviews to convey the voices, surroundings and clashing dimensions of the life of Hathaway, a blues singer who died tragically at 33.
Pavlic’s other recent books include “but here are small clear refractions” (Kwani? Books, Nairobi, 2008) and “Labors Lost Left Unfinished” (UPNE, 2006). His “Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue” won The American Poetry Review/ Honickman First Book Award in 2001.
Pavlic also is the author of the study of African-American literary culture, “Crossroads Modernism” (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). He lives in Athens, Ga., where he directs the M.F.A. and Ph.D. programs in creative writing and teaches at the University of Georgia.
Monday’s event is sponsored by the Department of English. For more information, call 388-6231.