Edgar Kunz
Edgar Kunz is the author of Tap Out (Mariner, 2019) and Fixer (Ecco, 2023). He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems appear in publications such as the New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Yale Review. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches at Goucher College and in the Newport MFA programs at Salve Regina University.
CPC Readings
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Blue Hour Reading Series
with Seo Jung Hak
Haymarket House
Watch the reading:
Megan Sungyoon and Seo Jung Hak begin at 2:26 minutes. Edgar Kunz begins at 30:06 minutes.
Poetry by Edgar Kunz
We’re breaking into your apartment
through your bedroom window.
The maintenance guy’s ladder
is propped against the sill.
I climb the ladder rung by rung,
it shivers, I try not to look down.
Three hundred
miles north, my father beds down in a van by the Connecticut River.
Snow tires rim-deep in the silt. He has a wool horse blanket
tacked inside the windshield. A pair of extra pants bunched
into a pillow. He has a paper bag of partially smoked butts.