Joanna Fuhrman
Encyclopedia
Joanna Furhman is an American
poet and professor. She is the author of four collections of poems, including her forthcoming collection, Pageant (Alice James Books
, 2009). Her poems have appeared widely in literary magazines and journals, including New American Writing, Fence, Conduit, American Letters & Commentary, and The New York Quarterly, and 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. She is a graduate of the University of Washington
MFA program, and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University
and in public schools and libraries through Poets House
and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the playwright Robert Kerr.
United States
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poet and professor. She is the author of four collections of poems, including her forthcoming collection, Pageant (Alice James Books
Alice James Books
Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington.- History and mission :...
, 2009). Her poems have appeared widely in literary magazines and journals, including New American Writing, Fence, Conduit, American Letters & Commentary, and The New York Quarterly, and 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. She is a graduate of the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
MFA program, and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
and in public schools and libraries through Poets House
Poets House
Founded in 1985 by the late Stanley Kunitz, two-time poet laureate of the United States, and arts administrator Elizabeth Kray, Poets House is a national literary center and poetry library based in New York City. With more than 50,000 volumes of poetry, the library is the premier independent poetry...
and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the playwright Robert Kerr.
Published works
- Pageant (Alice James BooksAlice James BooksAlice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington.- History and mission :...
, 2009, forthcoming) - Moraine (Hanging Loose Press, 2006)
- Ugh Ugh Ocean (Hanging Loose Press, 2003)
- Freud in Brooklyn (Hanging Loose Press, 2000)