UWM’s creative writing program welcomes Ed Pavlić for a very special visit this spring. He will deliver a reading and Q&A on Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 5:30 pm in person in Curtin 175 (3242 N. Downer Ave.) and online at tinyurl.com/uwmpavlic25. This event is free and open to the public.

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 ongoing, 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 a Distinguished Research Professor of English, African American Studies, and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

This event is made possible with the support of the Boudreaux Foundation and is co-sponsored by the UWM Department of English and Woodland Pattern.