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Today's poem is "CONFESSION OF THE PAID EXPERT: FIVE REASONS TO TRY CHILDREN AS ADULTS & ADULTS AS IF THEY'RE ALREADY DEAD"
from Live at the Bitter End

Saturnalia Books

Ed Pavlić is author of seven collections of poems, and a two-time National Poetry Series winner. He has published essays, poems, fiction, and dramatic pieces in numerous magazines and journals, including Boston Review, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and Callaloo. He is Distinguished Research Professor and teaches in the English department and in the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia.

Books by Ed Pavlić:

Other poems on the web by Ed Pavlić:
"with grief with fury with action"
from "All Along It Was a Fever—a what poem"
Two poems
Two poems

Ed Pavlić on Twitter.

About Live at the Bitter End:

"Black history is the history of poetry, wherein the line between 'live flesh & dead meat' is fine. Ed Pavlić walks that line with dispossessive abandon, dispersed in groundedness like Charlie Haden or William Parker."
—Fred Moten



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