USI Southern Indiana Reading Series to present virtual reading by acclaimed poet Edgar Kunz

The Southern Indiana Reading Series will present a virtual reading and Q&A by Edgar Kunz, acclaimed poet, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11. This event is open to the public at no charge. Registration is required.  

The Southern Indiana Reading Series brings award-winning, nationally celebrated authors to USI to share their work and talk with students. The Series showcases some of the most exciting authors writing today and aims to inspire both the University of Southern Indiana’s and the Evansville communities.   

Edgar Kunz is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer, published by Ecco in 2023 and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and Tap Out, published by Ecco in 2019. This appearance is part of his Spring Fixer North American Tour where he will visit poetry centers and colleges in Chicago, Illinois; Nashville, Tennessee; Manchester, Connecticut; St. Louis, Missouri; and Evansville, Indiana.  

Kunz has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The American Poetry Review (APR) and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College. 

“Kunz's reading gives the audience an opportunity to hear an exciting new voice, a presence that is helping define what contemporary poetry is,” says Rosalie Moffett, USI Assistant Professor of English. 

To learn more about this event and the Southern Indiana Reading Series, contact Moffett at rmoffett@usi.edu, or visit the webpage.