Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series: Chris Bullard’s ARGUMENTS FOR

Tuesday October 13, 2026 @ 6:30pm

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Poets Lynn Levin and Anne-Adele Wight appear together on PHILLY LOVES POETRY to celebrate Chris Bullard’s ARGUMENTS FOR: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS a collection that showcases the poet’s comic and disturbing deconstructions of normalcy and self, his curious insights, and much more. Lynn Levin and Anne-Adele Wight will represent the poet, talk about their poet-colleague relationship with Bullard, their roles in bringing together this collection, and, of course, they will read selections from the book.

Chris Bullard is a native of Jacksonville, Florida. He was employed by the federal government as an administrative Law Judge for seventeen years. He received his B.A. in English from The University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. He is the author of twelve books and chapbooks of poetry. Bullard’s poems have appeared in Rattle, Pleiades, Scientific American, Atlanta Review, New York Quarterly, The Comstock Review, in the anthology Keystone. Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, and in many other places. He also published books of fiction and science fiction. Chris Bullard lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He wrote many of the poems collected here while living with lung disease and is currently in hospice care.

You can purchase the book on our website here.