Ben Gucciardi with Edgar Kunz & Samuel Cheney: Arguments: Poems

A celebration of Ben Gucciardi’s new poetry collection, Arguments , with readings from Edgar Kunz and Samuel Cheney! The poems in Arguments take their launch point from a quote from Yeats: “We make out of our quarrels with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” These poems confront the contradictions that shape contemporary life: how to make a self, a family and an ethical life within exploitative systems that demand complicity. We’ll hear Ben Gucciardi read from these poems, and as Baltimore-based peots Edgar Kunz and Samuel Cheney read their poems in support, we think there’ll be some interesting conversations between their pieces. Join us to hear for yourself! RSVP here! Order ARGUMENTS here! Order FIXER here! Originally from San Francisco, California, Ben Gucciardi is the author of Arguments (Persea Books, 2026), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award and West Portal (University of Utah Press, 2021), selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, and named a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Julie Suk Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks Timeless Tips for Simple Sabotage (Quarterly West, 2021), winner of the 2020 Quarterly West Chapbook contest, and I Ask My Sister’s Ghost (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2020). In addition to writing, Ben founded Soccer Without Borders, a non-profit organization serving immigrant youth with headquarters in Baltimore. Edgar Kunz is the author of two books: Fixer (Ecco, 2023)…