UPDATE (Oct. 7): The lecture featuring Jack Prelutsky which had been scheduled for Oct. 6 on the UT Knoxville campus, has been rescheduled for 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 11, in West High School Auditorium, 3300 Sutherland Ave. On Saturday, “Jack Prelutsky’s Family Performance” will be held at 2 p.m. at the East Tennessee History Center in downtown Knoxville. This event is free and open to the public.

The lecture featuring Jack Prelutsky, the nation’s first Children’s Poet Laureate, which had been scheduled for tonight has been canceled due to an illness. UT’s Center for Children’s & Young Adult Literature, which was to sponsor the event, hopes to reschedule Prelutsky’s visit for a date in the near future. Updated info will be posted on the center’s website.