Joanna Fuhrman

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Joanna Furhman (born 1972) [1] is an American poet and professor. [2] [3] She is the author of six collections of poems and her poems have appeared in literary magazines and journals, as well as in anthologies. [4] Fuhrman is a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board, [5] and poetry editor for Boog City, a community newspaper for the Lower East Side in New York.

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Life

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. [6] She also teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Village, [7] and in libraries through the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the playwright Robert Kerr. [8]

Fuhrman has also participated in The Sanctuary Project, a concert held by Lunatics at Large. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Ager, Deborah; Silverman, M. E. (2013-09-26). The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 67. ISBN   978-1-4411-8304-0.
  2. ↑ Katz, Vincent (2017). Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology. Yale University Press. p. 166. ISBN   978-0-300-23001-7.
  3. ↑ Fink, Thomas; Lease, Joseph (2007). "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. ISBN   978-0-8386-4155-2.
  4. ↑ Red Room: Where the Writers Are > Joanna Fuhrman Biography Archived 2012-09-08 at archive.today
  5. ↑ Alice James Books > Cooperative Board Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "Joanna Fuhrman". Poetry Foundation. 2020-01-27. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  7. ↑ Writer's Village: A Creative Writing Intensive , retrieved 2018-11-26
  8. ↑ Alice James Books > Author Page > Joanna Fuhrman Archived 2009-10-31 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Fischer, Shell (2011). "Poets, composers find sanctuary". Poets & Writers Magazine. 39 (2) – via Gale Academic Onefile.
  10. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: UGH UGH OCEAN by Joanna Fuhrman, Author . Hanging Loose". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  11. ↑ Fink, Thomas. "Jacket 23 - Thomas Fink reviews "Ugh Ugh Ocean" by Joanna Fuhrman". Jacket . Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  12. ↑ "Fiction Book Review: Freud in Brooklyn by Joanna Fuhrman, Author Hanging Loose Press". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  13. ↑ Lehman, David (2000-04-21). "Poetry Touched by the Comic Muse". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2020-01-28.
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  15. ↑ Haralson, Eric (2006). Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. University of Iowa Press. p. 234. ISBN   978-1-58729-667-3.
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