Anthony Thomas Lombardi with Edgar Kunz: murmurations

Imagine Amy Winehouse never died but instead got sober. You've entered the world of Anthony Thomas Lombardi's poetry collection murmurations. This remarkable book navigates the fractured intersections between addiction and grief, class and community, where the lyrical lives in the blasphemous and our invocations summon ghosts instead of saints.

Join us for a reading with Anthony Thomas Lombardi and Edgar Kunz in celebration of a beautiful collection that resists loneliness.

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ANTHONY THOMAS LOMBARDI is the author of murmurations (YesYes Books, 2025), a Poetry Project 2021–2022 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, and a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, among other accolades. He is the founder and director of Word is Bond, a community-centered benefit reading series partnered with Brooklyn Poets that raises funds for transnational relief efforts and mutual aid organizations; has taught or continues to teach with Borough of Manhattan Community College, Paris College of Art, Brooklyn Poets, Florida State University, Polyphony Lit’s apprenticeship programming, and community programming throughout New York City; and currently serves as a poetry editor for Sundog Lit. His work has appeared in Best New Poets, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Nashville Review, Narrative Magazine, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with his cat, Dilla.

EDGAR KUNZ is the author of two books: Fixer (Ecco, 2023), a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and Tap Out (Ecco, 2019). He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, American Poetry Review, and Poetry. He lives in Baltimore where he teaches at Goucher College and in the Newport MFA.

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