Join us for a reading and conversation with Assistant Teaching Professor Joanna Fuhrman in conversation with alumnus Benjamin Grossberg.
Benjamin S. Grossbergs collections of poetry include My Husband Would (U. of Tampa Press, 2020), winner of the Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard (U. of Tampa Press, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. His novel, The Spring before Obergefell (U? of Nebraska Press, 2024), was selected by Percival Everett for the AWP's James Alan McPherson Prize and also won a Lambda Literary Award. He has two new poetry collections, When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like (Cavankerry) and Detail from an Illustration of Paradise (Two Sylvias Press) forthcoming this fall. Ben is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford.
Joanna Furhman is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Data Mind, a collection of darkly comic, surreal prose poems about the internet (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press in 2024). 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 Marks 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.