April Ossmann and Ed Pavlic
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz [map]
$3 suggested donation to Poetry Santa Cruz.

April Ossmann is the author of Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007).  She has published poetry in anthologies and numerous journals including The Spoon River Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and Colorado Review, and is the recipient of several awards for her poetry including the Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice award for ten poems published in the summer 2000 issue of Prairie Schooner.  She teaches poetry workshops at The Writer’s Center in White River Junction, Vermont, and has taught creative writing and literature courses at Lebanon College and the University of Maine at Farmington.  She is also Executive Director of Alice James Books.

Hear poems by April Ossmann on the Fishouse website.

Read a poem on the Four Way Books website.

Read three poems in MiPoesias.

Ed Pavlic has lived in England, Nigeria, France, Croatia, and a baker’s dozen of the United States.  Winners Have Yet to be Announced, an epic poem centered in the life and music of soul singer Donny Hathaway, was released in Spring, 2008 (UGA Press).  His book-length, prose-poetic photo essay set on a dhow off the coast of Kenya, but here are small clear refractions, was published by Kwani? Books (Nairobi, Kenya) in 2007.  His second book of poems, Labors Lost Left Unfinished, appeared in 2006 with Sheep Meadow Press (University Press of New England).  Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue won The American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Award, judged by Adrienne Rich in 2001.  His study of African-American modernism, Crossroads Modernism, was published in 2002 (U. Minn P).  He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, St. John’s College (York, UK), and Union College.  He’s also taught poetry workshops at the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia and at the Kwani? Literary Festival in Kenya.  He now directs the MFA / PhD Program in Creative Writing, teaches at the University of Georgia and lives in Athens, Georgia.

Ed Pavlic will be introduced by Adrienne Rich.

Read two poems by Ed Pavlic in Inertia Magazine.

Read in interview with Ed Pavlic by Anne-Christine Hoff in The New Humanist.

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