A Novel Idea on Passyunk
1726 East Passyunk Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19148
United States
Free and open to the public.
Join A Novel Idea for the Philadelphia launch of poet Edgar Kunz’s collection Tap Out. The event will feature a reading by Kunz, as well as local authors Grady Chambers (North American Stadiums, 2018) and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. Copies of the authors’ books will be for sale and complimentary refreshments will be offered.
Edgar Kunz is a writer from New England and author of the poetry collection Tap Out (Mariner / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches at Goucher College and in the MFA program at Salve Regina University.
Grady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums (Milkweed Editions, 2018) selected by Henri Cole as the winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize.
His poems and stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Joyland, The Iowa Review, Nashville Review, and elsewhere, and new work is forthcoming from Ploughshares, Kenyon Review Online, and Boulevard. Grady was born and raised in Chicago. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, and lives in Philadelphia.
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, where her research focuses on contemporary American poetry about the Holocaust. Julia is the author of The Many Names for Mother, winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry prize, forthcoming from Kent State University Press in Fall of 2019, and The Bear Who Ate the Stars (Split Lip Press, 2014). Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from POETRY, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and Best New Poets 2018, among others.
Grady Chambers
Grady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, attended the MFA program at Syracuse University, and has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and the New York State Summer Writers Institute.
The winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize is an assured debut collection about grace—the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.