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Join us for a reading and conversation with Writers House's Associate Teaching Professor Joanna Fuhrman in conversation with Kristin Grogan, Assistant Teaching Professor for Writers House. 

Joanna Fuhrman is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern University Books), To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021), The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press 2015), and Pageant (Alice James Books 2009). She is a former poetry editor of Ping Pong and Boog City and served as the Monday night coordinator for the poetry readings at the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church from 2001-2003 and the Wednesday night coordinator from 2010-2011. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Baffler, The Believer,  Conduit, and Denver Quarterly, as well as on the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets (poem-a-day) websites, and in anthologies published by Soft Skull Press, HarperCollins, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Her poem “Stagflation” won a 2011 Pushcart Prize,  her poem “Lavender” was featured on The Slowdown podcast, and in 2023, a poem appeared in The Best American Poetry anthology.  She also creates poetry videos that are on her own Vimeo site and in literary journals. After publishing with them since she was a teenager, she became a co-editor of Hanging Loose Press in 2022..

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. is an Assistant Professor in English at Rutgers University. Her research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, labor history and theory, and gender and sexuality. She is finishing her first book, an account of the dynamic relationship between poetry and labor of various kinds—artisanal, mechanical, clerical, and reproductive work—with chapters on Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Lorine Niedecker. She is beginning a new project on feminist and queer poetics and anarchism in the USA, from Emma Goldman to now. Her writing has appeared in American Literature, Critical Quarterly, Social Text Online, and Post45; most recently, she edited, with David B. Hobbs, a special issue of Post45 Contemporaries on Bernadette Mayer.