Philip Schultz + Rosanna Warren: Enormous Morning: Poems

Moderating this discussion is award-winning author Rosanna Warren. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning poet examines the lives and sacrifices of his foremothers in his most personal collection yet.

Philip Schultz is famous for his empathetic explorations of male shortcomings, primarily those of his late father. Enormous Morning, his incisive new volume, reflects on the sacrifices of women in their roles as mothers, wives, and friends, including those of his own mother, who was forced to support the family in the face of his father’s financial ruin. The collection ends with a long poem, “Something and Nothing,” that pays homage to the Arshile Gorky painting The Artist and His Mother.

But the poems are also political in scope. Schultz weaves these personal stories into the broader tapestry of our political moment, reflecting on the fragility of democracy, including the January 6 insurrection, and those who are willing to sacrifice themselves to preserve it. Intimate, vulnerable, and inviting, Enormous Morning cements Schultz as our greatest chronicler of compassion.

Photo credit: Monica Banks

Philip Schultz is the author of nine poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Failure. The founder and director of the The Writers Studio, he’s won a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Levinson and Lamont prizes, and is co-editor of The Puschart Book of 21st Century Poetry and Prose.

Photo credit: Claire Holt

Rosanna Warren is the author of Hindsight and six previous volumes of poetry and is a professor emerita in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is a recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among others. She lives in New York City.