Poetry. "Earl S. Braggs' CROSSING TECUMSEH STREET is lively, vocal, and laced with an intelligent sense of humor. I enjoyed these poems. I am going to share some of them with my poetry workshop which meets this afternoon" --Billy Collins. "Both historian and prophet, Braggs takes us across Tecumseh Street into a world of dazzling visions, enormous disappointments, and guarded hopes. I don't think there's another poet today who could give us all this" -- Richard Jackson. Earl S. Braggs is a native of Wilmington, North Carolina. He is the author of three previous books - HAT DANCER BLUE, winner of the 1992 Anhinga Prize, WALKING BACK FROM WOODSTOCK, and HOUSE ON FONTANKA. All available from SPD.

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Earl S. Braggs, UC Foundation Professor and Herman H. Battle Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is the author of Hat Dancer Blue, winner of the 1992 Anhinga Prize selected by Marvin Bell, WALKING BACK FROM WOODSTOCK, HOUSE ON FONTANKA, CROSSING TECUMSEH STREET, IN WHICH LANGUAGE DO I KEEP SILENT, and YOUNGER THAN NEIL. "After Allyson," a chapter from his yet to be published novel, Looking for Jack Kerouac, won the 1995 Jack Kerouac Literary Prize. Other awards include a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and a Chattanooga Allied Arts Individual Artist Grant. Supported by Summer Fellowships from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, he traveled and wrote in Russia in 1998, France on 2002, and Spain in 2005. He is a native of Wilmington, North Carolina.