Earl S. Braggs

Earl Braggs teaches creative writing and literature at UTC. He's published seven books of poems including Hat Dancer Blue, In Which Language Do I Keep Silent: New and Selected Poems, and most recently, Younger Than Neil. He has won the Jack Kerouac Literary Prize and has been named Outstanding Professor by the Student Government Association and Outstanding Teacher by The University of TN National Alumni Association.

For more on Earl Braggs, see

His poetry at Anhinga Press
Southern Artistry's portfolio of Earl Bragg's work
The poem "Why We All Went to War" at Alehouse Press
Selected poems in Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets, 1951-1977 by William J. Walsh at Google Books.
The two poems "Storm Named Earl" and "Of Course the Brochure Doesn't Mention Mrs. Abbot" from The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South by Nikky Finney at Google Books
The poems "Simon and Naomi","Our Town Was Any Town, But Motown Was Heaven," and "The Baseball Boys of 1964" from African American Review, Winter 1994 via BNet
"Connect the Dots," given as a keynote address at American Diversity Report
"On the Road with Earl Braggs" by Cindy Carroll at Tennessee Alumnus Magazine
Chattanoogan article about Younger Than Neil
Video recordings of Earl Braggs leading a writing workshop for Discover Clarksville, July 25, 2009.

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