Earl Braggs, June 22, 7-8:30 p.m., Hill Freeman Library & Spruill Learning Center
Earl Sherman Braggs is a professor of English at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga and is the author of nine poetry collections, including “Hat Dancer Blue,” winner of the Anhinga Poetry Prize, “Younger Than Neil” and “In Which Language Do I Keep Silent: New and Selected.” Braggs has won the Jack Kerouac International Literary Prize and the Goucester County Poetry Prize. He was a finalist in the James Jones First Novel Contest. He also was the recipient of the Anhinga Prize and was unable to accept the Cleveland State Poetry Prize for the same manuscript.
Braggs’ latest poetry collections include “Syntactical Arrangements of a Twisted Wind” and “Oliver’s Breakfast in America” (a book-length poetry novella).
