Joanna Fuhrman
Joanna Furhman (born 1972) is an American poet and professor. She is the author of six collections of poems and her poems have appeared in literary magazines and journals, as well as in anthologies. Fuhrman is a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board, and poetry editor for Boog City, a community newspaper for the Lower East Side in New York.
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- 1972
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- poet · writer
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- University of Washington · Saint Ann's School
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• Born — 1972 • Genre — poetry
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She is a graduate of the University of Washington MFA program. In the past, she taught creative writing in public schools through Poets House. She is currently the Teaching Instructor and Coordinator of Instruction to Creative Writing at Rutgers University. She also teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Village, and in libraries through the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the playwright Robert Kerr. Fuhrman has also participated in The Sanctuary Project, a concert held by Lunatics at Large.
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Select poems
• "Return to Normalcy" • "Glimpsing John Berryman Reborn as a Hasid"
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1972
Joanna Fuhrman born.
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• The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press, 2015) • Pageant (Alice James Books, 2009) • Moraine (Hanging Loose Press, 2006) • Ugh Ugh Ocean (Hanging Loose Press, 2003) • Freud in Brooklyn (Hanging Loose Press, 2000) • To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press, 2021) ISBN 978-1934909690
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- 1.Ager, Deborah. The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. 67. 2013-09-26. 978-1-4411-8304-0.
- 2.Katz, Vincent. Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology. Yale University Press. 166. 2017. 978-0-300-23001-7.
- 3.Fink, Thomas. "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. 2007. 978-0-8386-4155-2.
- 4.Red Room: Where the Writers Are > Joanna Fuhrman Biography
- 5.Alice James Books > Cooperative Board
- 6.Joanna Fuhrman. Poetry Foundation. 2020-01-27.
- 7.Writer's Village: A Creative Writing Intensive.
- 8.Alice James Books > Author Page > Joanna Fuhrman
- 9.Fischer, Shell. Poets, composers find sanctuary. Poets & Writers Magazine. 39. 2. 2011.
- 10.Nonfiction Book Review: UGH UGH OCEAN by Joanna Fuhrman, Author . Hanging Loose. Publishers Weekly.
- 11.Fink, Thomas. Jacket 23 - Thomas Fink reviews "Ugh Ugh Ocean" by Joanna Fuhrman. Jacket.
- 12.Fiction Book Review: Freud in Brooklyn by Joanna Fuhrman, Author Hanging Loose Press. Publishers Weekly.
- 13.Lehman, David. Poetry Touched by the Comic Muse. Wall Street Journal. 2000-04-21. 0099-9660.
- 14.Miller, Stephen Paul. Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture. University of Alabama Press. 337–441. 2010. 978-0-8173-5563-0.
- 15.Haralson, Eric. Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. University of Iowa Press. 234. 2006. 978-1-58729-667-3.
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