What: “In Which Language Do I Keep Silent: A Poetry Reading by Earl S. Braggs”
When: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24
Where: Roth Grand Reading Room, Fourth Floor, UTC Library
Cost: Free, but registration is required
To register: https://forms.office.com/r/SzpWHa1bbr
Registration deadline: Sunday, Feb. 20
Earl Braggs, Herman H. Battle professor of African American Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, will read selections from his poetry during “In Which Language Do I Keep Silent.”
The program will feature readings from:
- “Obama’s Children”
- “Negro Side of the Moon”
- “Ugly Love”
- “Cruising Weather Wind Blue”
- “Walking Back From Woodstock”
- “Hat Dancing Blue with Miss Bessie Smith”
Braggs will have a book signing and reception after the reading.
The program is free, but registration is required. The first 50 people to register will be eligible to receive a free, autographed copy of an Earl Braggs book.
UTC Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Engagement Stacy Lightfoot will be the moderator for the program, which is sponsored by the UTC College of Arts and Sciences and its Diversity Committee.
Braggs has written 15 books of poetry, the novel “Looking for Jack Kerouac” and the memoir “A Boy Named Boy.”
He has won such awards as the Anhinga Poetry Prize, the Cleveland (Ohio) State Poetry Prize, the C&R Poetry Prize, the Jack Kerouac International Literary Prize, the Knoxville News Sentinel Poetry Award and the Gloucester County Poetry Prize. “Looking for Jack Kerouac” was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Contest.
