The Georgia Poetry Circuit is coming back to Savannah with another nationally acclaimed poet!

PATRICK ROSAL is the author of five full-length poetry collections including The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He currently serves as Campus Co-director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden, where he coordinates the programming series Occasions for Gathering and Quilting Water, a five-year public art project collecting interviews about water from around the world. He is also Professor of English teaching courses on poetry, performance, improvisation, collaboration, and community art. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Research Scholar program. and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. He is co-founding editor of Some Call It Ballin’, a literary sports magazine.

Rosal has recently completed a setting of the Lucille Clifton poem “sorrows” for voice and piano. He has provided recorded arrangement and live accompaniment for his wife, soprano Mary Rose Go. He is well versed in hip hop production techniques as well as analog and digital synthesis. He is a student of Afro-Cuban percussion, sacred music, improvised/creative modes, and many folkloric traditions from the Philippines, the Pacific, South America and the Caribbean.

*This FREE (but come early for a good seat) public event is brought to you by Savannah State University's Department of English Languages and Cultures, The Book Lady Bookstore, and Estuary Creative Arts Club.

*Books will be available for sale & signing after the talk and Q&A