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Ed Pavlic

Race and Democracy

PoemoftheWeek Podcasts

Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson

Thomas Sugrue

Yanis Varoufakis

Michael Eric Dyson

Virginia Cumberbatch

Peter Beinart

Marc Lamont Hill

Gerald Horne

Matt Stoller

Clint Smith

Elizabeth Warren

Naomi Klein

Justin Lin

James Baldwin

Thomas Piketty

Evan Osnos

OwlTail

Rob Johnson talks to poet and scholar Ed Pavlic about how the pandemic's physical distancing requirement forces us to reassess all of our relationships and how racism and inequality intensify the pandemic's effects.

Ed Pavlic: The Social Challenge of Physical Distancing

Ed Pavlić (Ph.D. Indiana University) is the Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies. Affiliated faculty in Creative Writing, author of eight collections of poetry, two critical studies, and a novel, he twice served as Director of the Creative Writing Ph.D. Program in English (2006-2011, 2015-2017). His most recent books are Another Kind of Madness (Milkweed Editions, 2019), a novel set mostly in Chicago and coastal Kenya and tuned to the sound of soul in music, especially in the songs of Chaka Khan; Live at the Bitter End (Saturnalia Books, 2018);  Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno (National Poetry Series, Fence Books, 2015) and 'Who Can Afford to Improvise?': James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners (Fordham University Press, 2015). Other recent works are Visiting Hours at the Color Line (National Poetry Series, Milkweed Editions, 2013), But Here Are Small Clear Refractions (Achebe Center, 2009, Kwani? Trust, 2013) and Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway (U Georgia P, 2008). His other books are Paraph of Bone &amp; Other Kinds of Blue (APR-Honickman/Copper Canyon, 2001), Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Literary Culture (U Minnesota Press, 2002), and Labors Lost Left Unfinished (UPNE/Sheep Meadow Press, 2006).Forthcoming books include: Let It Be Broke (Four Way Books, 2020), a collection of poems focused upon cross-racial dynamics in American life. Among his current projects are: a non-fiction work, “No Time to Rest: James Baldwin’s Life in Letters to His Brother David"; "'Outward in Larger Terms': The Radical Geography of Adrienne Rich's Expanding Solitudes," a study of the poet's career; and "Like I Was Ink," a memoir exploring the intimate tangle of race and identity in the American experience.

Ed Pavlić (Ph.D. Indiana University) is the Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies. Affiliated faculty in Creative Writing, author of eight collections of poetry, two critical studies, and a novel, he twice served as Director of the Creative Writing Ph.D. Program in English (2006-2011, 2015-2017). His most recent books are Another Kind of Madness (Milkweed Editions, 2019), a novel set mostly in Chicago and coastal Kenya and tuned to the sound of soul in music, especially in the songs of Chaka Khan; Live at the Bitter End (Saturnalia Books, 2018);  Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno (National Poetry Series, Fence Books, 2015) and 'Who Can Afford to Improvise?': James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners (Fordham University Press, 2015). Other recent works are Visiting Hours at the Color Line (National Poetry Series, Milkweed Editions, 2013), But Here Are Small Clear Refractions (Achebe Center, 2009, Kwani? Trust, 2013) and Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway (U Georgia P, 2008). His other books are Paraph of Bone &amp; Other Kinds of Blue (APR-Honickman/Copper Canyon, 2001), Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Literary Culture (U Minnesota Press, 2002), and Labors Lost Left Unfinished (UPNE/Sheep Meadow Press, 2006). Forthcoming books include: Let It Be Broke (Four Way Books, 2020), a collection of poems focused upon cross-racial dynamics in American life. Among his current projects are: a non-fiction work, “No Time to Rest: James Baldwin’s Life in Letters to His Brother David"; "'Outward in Larger Terms': The Radical Geography of Adrienne Rich's Expanding Solitudes," a study of the poet's career; and "Like I Was Ink," a memoir exploring the intimate tangle of race and identity in the American experience.

Ep. 27 – James Baldwin’s Life, Legacy, and Influence: A Conversation with Ed Pavlic

A Review of Ed Pavlic's 'Winners Have Yet to be Announced' by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum