People / Ed Pavlic
Ed Pavlic has lived in England, Nigeria, France, Croatia, and a baker's dozen of the United States. His book-length, prose-poetic photo essay set on a dhow off the coast of Kenya, but here are small clear refractions, will be published by Kwani? Books (Nairobi, Kenya) in 2007. Winners Have Yet to be Announced, an epic poem centered in the life and music of soul singer Donny Hathaway, is forthcoming in Spring, 2008 (UGA Press). 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 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.