Shore Lit & AAM present acclaimed poet Edgar Kunz Friday 2/21

Shore Lit and the Academy Art Museum invite you to a book talk with acclaimed poet Edgar Kunz, author of the celebrated collection Fixer (Ecco/Harper Collins, 2023). 

“My great subject, my first and most lasting obsession, is money. What we have to do to get it, how both having and not having twists us up,” writes Kunz. 

Fixer explores labor and art, precarity and stability, productivity and pleasure. A New York Times Editors’ Choice and an Electric Lit best poetry collection of the year, it’s a keen examination of what it costs to build a life that sustains. You can read the poem “Piano” from the collection in the New Yorker. 

Kunz will read from Fixer and discuss his work with Shore Lit Founder Kerry Folan at 6:00 pm on Friday, February 21. This event is free and open to the public, though reservations are required through the Shore Lit website.

Edgar Kunz is the author of two books: Fixer (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2023), a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and Tap Out (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019). He has been an NEA Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College.

Shore Lit is based in Easton, Maryland, and aims to enhance local cultural offerings with free author events open to the public. Our programs are designed to explore relevant ideas, foster literary conversation, and build inclusive community. For updates, sign up for our monthly newsletter at shorelit.org. 

The Academy Art Museum’s mission is to promote the knowledge, practice, and appreciation of the arts and to enhance cultural life on the Eastern Shore by making the Museum’s expanding collection, exhibitions, and broad spectrum of arts programs available to everyone. Museum admission is free and open to the public.