FGB 73: Edgar Kunz, Poet and Disc Golfer

Edgar Kunz, Baltimore-based poet, ultimate player, and disc golfer, joins the show to talk about some similarities between writing and sports. We talk about the process of finding the inspiration to reach peak performance, the seasonality of creativity, the process of writing to balance depth and complexity with economy, and often diverge into various authors, poets, and other artists that we enjoy Support Edgar by visiting his website, purchasing his books, reading his poetry, or visiting him when he comes on tour to a bookstore near you! Edgar Kunz is the author of two books: Fixer (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2023), a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and Tap Out (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019).He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has also been supported by fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Hawthornden Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Vanderbilt University. He was recently awarded a 2024 Rubys Artist Grant by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation to support a new project.Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Yale Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Oxford American. He lives in Baltimore where he teaches at Goucher College and in the Newport MFA. New for 2025, Fish will be at the ⁠⁠⁠Disc East Expo⁠⁠⁠ January 25-26, including a LIVE recording of the Fish Golf Brah-dcast with special guest Simon Lizotte. Get your tickets and make your plans now for the event with other pros, vendors, clinics and seminars, and a brief indoor respite from the harsh winter! The Fish Golf Brah-dcast is a series of conversations with people in disc golf, who don’t always have to talk about disc golf. When there’s no defined topic, everything is on-topic, including taunting other players and dogs. Episodes will be released weekly throughout the 2024 season. Produced by Disc Golf Brah. If you like the show and want more, hats and other show merchandise are available at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discgolfbrah.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Fish discs are available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fishdiscgolf.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠daddydiscgolf.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠dischub.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠treemagnets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and you can save 10% on all GRIPeq products at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠grip-eq.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ through March 2025 with "fish10".