VCU Visiting Writers Series: Edgar Kunz & Devon Walker-Figueroa
Date: Thursday, Jan 29, 2026
Start time: 7PM
End time: 8:30PM
Location: James Branch Cabell Library Lecture Hall (Room 303)
Audience: The event is free and open to all and will be held in person but will also be live streamed through Zoom.
The VCU Visiting Writers Series hosts a joint-reading by recently hired VCU faculty Edgar Kunz & Devon Walker-Figueroa.
Edgar Kunz is the author of two books: Tap Out and Fixer. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker and The Atlantic. He is working on a book about growing up in a medieval anachronist society.
Devon Walker-Figueroa is the author Lazarus Species, newly released by Milkweed Editions, and of Philomath. A winner of the National Poetry Series and the Levis Reading Prize, Philomath was the first poetry collection to be named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize.
Sponsor(s): The VCU Visiting Writers Series is presented on behalf of VCU's MFA in creative writing program in partnership with the James Branch Cabell Library Associates and VCU Libraries. Additional sponsors are the VCU Department of English, and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.
Event contact: VCU Libraries Events Office, rbpander@vcu.edu