Joanna Fuhrman
{{short description|American poet and professor (born 1972)}}
{{Infobox writer|image=Joanna Fuhrman in Speaking Portraits (c.2004).jpg|caption=Joanna Fuhrman circa 2004|birth_date=1972|genre=poetry}}
Joanna Furhman (born 1972){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CCHBAgAAQBAJ&q=Joanna+Fuhrman&pg=PA67|title=The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry|last1=Ager|first1=Deborah|last2=Silverman|first2=M. E.|date=2013-09-26|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|isbn=978-1-4411-8304-0|pages=67|language=en}} is an American poet and professor.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eu5UDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Year+of+Yellow+Butterflies%22+Fuhrman&pg=PA166|title=Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology|last=Katz|first=Vincent|date=2017|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-23001-7|pages=166|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-I_hZUZGQAsC&q=Joanna+Fuhrman&pg=PA68|title="Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics|last1=Fink|first1=Thomas|last2=Lease|first2=Joseph|date=2007|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press|isbn=978-0-8386-4155-2|language=en}} She is the author of six collections of poems and her poems have appeared in literary magazines and journals, as well as in anthologies.[http://www.redroom.com/author/joanna-fuhrman/bio Red Room: Where the Writers Are > Joanna Fuhrman Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120908020412/http://www.redroom.com/author/joanna-fuhrman/bio |date=2012-09-08 }} Fuhrman is a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board,[http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/board.html Alice James Books > Cooperative Board] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119235631/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org//board.html |date=2008-11-19 }} and poetry editor for Boog City, a community newspaper for the Lower East Side in New York.
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joanna-fuhrman|title=Joanna Fuhrman|date=2020-01-27|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}} She also teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Village,{{Citation|title=Writer's Village: A Creative Writing Intensive|url=https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/summer/pre-college/writers-village.html|language=en|access-date=2018-11-26}} and in libraries through the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the playwright Robert Kerr.[http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/pageant.html Alice James Books > Author Page > Joanna Fuhrman] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031115736/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/pageant.html |date=2009-10-31 }}
Fuhrman has also participated in The Sanctuary Project, a concert held by Lunatics at Large.{{Cite journal|last=Fischer|first=Shell|date=2011|title=Poets, composers find sanctuary.|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA250578699&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=08916136&p=AONE&sw=w|journal=Poets & Writers Magazine|volume=39|issue=2|via=Gale Academic Onefile}}
Published works
= Collections =
- The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press, 2015) {{ISBN|9781934909454}}
- Pageant (Alice James Books, 2009) {{ISBN|9781882295777}}
- Moraine (Hanging Loose Press, 2006) {{Isbn|9781931236539}}
- Ugh Ugh Ocean (Hanging Loose Press, 2003) {{ISBN|9781931236188}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-931236-18-8|title=Nonfiction Book Review: UGH UGH OCEAN by Joanna Fuhrman, Author . Hanging Loose|website=Publishers Weekly|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}}{{Cite web|url=http://jacketmagazine.com/23/fink-fuhr.html|title=Jacket 23 - Thomas Fink reviews "Ugh Ugh Ocean" by Joanna Fuhrman|last=Fink|first=Thomas|website=Jacket|access-date=2020-01-28}}
- Freud in Brooklyn (Hanging Loose Press, 2000) {{ISBN|9781882413720}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-882413-72-0|title=Fiction Book Review: Freud in Brooklyn by Joanna Fuhrman, Author Hanging Loose Press|website=Publishers Weekly|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB956263197252492354|title=Poetry Touched by the Comic Muse|last=Lehman|first=David|date=2000-04-21|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2020-01-28|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}
- To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press, 2021) ISBN 978-1934909690
= Select poems =
- "Return to Normalcy"{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=elfiE2XUUXgC&q=Joanna+Fuhrman&pg=PA337|title=Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture|last1=Miller|first1=Stephen Paul|last2=Morris|first2=Daniel|date=2010|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-5563-0|pages=337–441|language=en}}
- "Glimpsing John Berryman Reborn as a Hasid"{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YcSy-UNPt4C&q=%22Joanna+Fuhrman%22&pg=PA233|title=Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry|last=Haralson|first=Eric|date=2006|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-1-58729-667-3|pages=234|language=en}}
References
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External links
{{Portal|Biography}}
- {{official website|http://www.joannafuhrman.com}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ16qSm_rmk Video: Joanna Fuhrman Reading]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090531094522/http://www.twc.org/workshops/writer/14 Biography: Teachers & Writers Collaborative – Writer > Joanna Fuhrman]
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Category:Poets from New York (state)
Category:University of Washington alumni
Category:Writers from Brooklyn
Category:Rutgers University faculty
Category:21st-century American poets