Merrill Fellow, Edgar Garcia, to read at Bank Square Books
Tue, Sep 08
|Bank Square Books
Edgar Garcia will read at Bank Square Books.
Time & Location
Sep 08, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Bank Square Books, 80 Stonington Rd, Mystic, CT 06355, USA
About the event
Please join us at Bank Square Books for a reading by James Merrill Fellow, Edgar Garcia.
Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019); Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020); Infinite Regress (collaborative work with Eamon Ore-Giron, Bom Dia Books, 2021); Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022); and Cantares (Wesleyan University Press, 2026). He is faculty in the department of English at the University of Chicago where he is also affiliated with the Program in Creative Writing.
Pre-order Cantares now to pick up at the event and have signed by Edgar himself!
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