Poetry Reading and Conversation: Ed Pavlić at UWM *IN PERSON*

Join our friends at the UWM Creative Writing Program for At the Mercy of the Light: Color, Culture and the Shades of History, a reading and conversation with Ed Pavlić. Sponsored by The Boudreaux Foundation, UWM English Department, and Woodland Pattern.

During the 21st century Ed Pavlić has authored thirteen books written across and between genres, and has published pieces in nearly seventy magazines. Recent works include: the poetry collections Let It Be Broke (2020) and Call It In the Air (2022); the novel Another Kind of Madness (2019); and critical studies such as Outward: Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes (2021) and Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners (2016). He is presently working on multiple projects: a memoir tracing a racially transverse life, his, titled At the Mercy of the Light: An Autobiography in Colors and Shades; an on-going, decade-long archival project documenting the life and work of James Baldwin; and a biography titled No Time to Rest: James Baldwin’s Several Lives. Pavlić is Distinguished Research Professor of English, African American Studies, and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

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