The Church: ‘Poetry: Philip Schultz In Conversation with April Gornik’ / March 28th, 6 PM

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POETRY: PHILIP SCHULTZ
in Conversation with
APRIL GORNIK

SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2026
6 PM

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TICKETS:

General Ticket: $20

Member Ticket: $15

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“It has to do with women, their sacrifices and strength, and of course politics!” says author and poet Philip Schultz of his latest book of poetry, Enormous Mornings. The Pulitzer Prize winning poet is joined in conversation with visual artist and The Church co-founder April Gornik, whose painting Light Bending the World is featured on the book’s cover. Sharing excerpts from the book and engaging in a delightful dialogue with Gornik, Schultz invites audiences to discover his new work and the inspirations behind it. Following the discussion there will be a Q&A.

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This newest poetic publication is set to release March 10th, 2026 by W.W. Norton. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and can be signed by the author after the talk.

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Join us as we close out Women’s History month with a poetic program that celebrates and explores the wisdom of women.

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PHILIP SCHULTZ

Philip Schultz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Failure (Harcourt 2007). His most recent collection, Luxury (W.W. Norton 2018) was preceded by The Wherewithal, a novel in verse (W.W. Norton 2014). He is also the author of two memoirs, My Dyslexia (W.W. Norton 2011) and Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing (W.W. Norton 2022). His six other poetry collections are The God of Loneliness (Harcourt 2010), Living in the Past (Harcourt 2004), The Holy Worm of Praise (Harcourt 2002), the chapbook My Guardian Angel Stein (1986), Deep Within the Ravine (Viking 1984, recipient of The Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Prize) and Like Wings (Viking 1978, winner of an American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award as well as a National Book Award nomination).

His work has been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Republic, Five Points, The Gettysburg Review, The Paris Review, The Southern Review and Slate, among other magazines, and he is the recipient of a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. He has also received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Fulbright scholarship, as well as the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine.

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The Church was established in 2019 by artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik. Housed in a deconsecrated 19th-century church, its doors were opened in April 2021. Our mission is to foster creativity and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as a maker village. The East End represents an exceptional artistic legacy, spanning the practices of indigenous art of several centuries ago, Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th Century, and the many celebrated writers, makers, musicians, and visual artists of the recent past and current moment. Core programming includes visual art exhibitions, concerts and events, educational programming, workshops, lectures, and an artist’s residency.