Poets Joanna Fuhrman and Yerra Sugarman share their work at the GWC!

Parking available at the North Shore Arts Association and on Chapel Street, both nearby.

Joanna Fuhrman, an assistant teaching professor in creative writing at Rutgers University, is the author of six books of poetry, most recently To a New Era  (Hanging Loose Press, 2021). Her seventh book, Data Mind—a collection of prose poems about the internet—is forthcoming from Curbstone/Northwestern University Press in 2024. After publishing with them since she was a teenager, she recently became one of the editors of Hanging Loose Press. Poems are forthcoming in Best American Poetry, The Laurel Review, and The South Dakota Review. 

Yerra Sugarman is the author of three volumes of poetry: Aunt Bird (Four Way Books, February 2022), which received the American Book Fest’s 2022 Annual Best Book Award for General Poetry; The Bag of Broken Glass (Sheep Meadow Press, 2008), poems from which received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; and Forms of Gone (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002), which won PEN American Center’s Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. Her other honors include a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, the Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards, a Chicago Literary Award, and a “Discovery”/The Nation Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Nation, New England Review and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. She lives in New York City.