Abused By Illusions

Edward Francisco makes sense of the world through poetry

Join us for his poetic response to turbulence



Writing poetry helps Edward Francisco make sense of the world. As Writer in Residence and associate professor of English at Pellissippi State, he intended to spend this past summer finishing up his collection of essays to be published next spring. As events of the summer unfolded, though, he felt an irresistible urge to write poems about what he observed. He calls these poems “a response to the turbulence in the etheric stream.”



Francisco will be reading these poems in public for the first time on Thursday, November 18 at 6:00 p.m. in The Rothrock Café at Lawson McGhee Library. His reading is part of Thursdays @ The Rothrock, a weekly series of literary evenings, informational programs and discussions.



Francisco’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in more than a hundred magazines and journals. He was runner-up in the Yale Younger Poets Competition in 1992 and winner of the Bluestone Press national poetry chapbook competition in 1994. He is author of a collection of poems, Death, Child, and Love, and a novel, The Dealmaker. With Robert Vaughan and Linda Francisco, he edited The South in Perspective, an anthology of Southern literature published by Prentice-Hall.

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