Megan Fernandes and special guest Edgar Kunz join Tracy Fuad of the Berlin Writers’ Workshop to celebrate the launch of Fernandes’s second poetry collection I Do Everything I’m Told.
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience and worship, longing and possessiveness, and nights of wandering cities.
Megan Fernandes is the author of Good Boys and a finalist for the Kundiman Poetry Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Common, and the Academy of American Poets, among others. An associate professor of English and the writer-in-residence at Lafayette College, Fernandes lives in New York City.
Edgar Kunz is the author of Fixer and Tap Out. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. New poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Poetry. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College.
Praise for I Do Everything I’m Told
Moving. . . .irresistible…. Transforms verse into multiverse.
—The New Yorker
Wrestling with issues of desire, sexuality, loss, and adventure to extremely compelling effect.
—Vogue
Captivating.
—New York Magazine
Free entry.
Location:
Lettretage Literaturhaus
Veteranenstraße 21
10119 Berlin
Date & Time: September 14, 20:00