Poet Patrick Rosal scheduled to appear at ABAC-Bainbridge
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BAINBRIDGE – Poet Patrick Rosal will be at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College’s Bainbridge campus on Feb. 22.
Rosal is an interdisciplinary artist and author of five full-length poetry collections. His writing and visual work have been published in The New York Times, The Nation, e-flux, and Best American Poetry, as well as many other journals and magazines.
He has taught at Bloomfield College, the University of Texas at Austin, and Princeton University, as well as in many community workshops around the country through Poets House, Kundiman, the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, and elsewhere.
Rosal is the inaugural campus co-director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden, where he is a professor of English. He heads the Quilting Water Initiative, an ongoing public art experiment at the intersections of race and ecology that gathers stories of water from around the world.
A winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, he has performed as a poet and musician in Europe, Africa, Asia, and throughout the Americas at venues that include Lincoln Center, NJPAC, the Cabrillo housing projects for agricultural workers, and Filipino Community Hall in Delano — comprising a writing and performance career spanning more than 20 years, reaching audiences around the world.
This event is part of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, which was founded at Mercer University in 1985 and is a consortium of 10 Georgia colleges and universities working together to bring poets of national and international reputation to member campuses annually, providing important access to the literary arts for Georgia residents across the state.
Rosal’s poetry reading will be in the Charles H. Kirbo Center’s solarium beginning at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public with no ticket required.
The final poet scheduled to appear as part of the Georgia Poetry Circuit is Chen Chen, who will be on campus on April 10.
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