Fuhrman & Larkin

POETRY READING By Joanna Fuhrman & Maryrose Larkin Tuesday, Dec 14, 6:30pm. Suggested Contribution: $5, $3 students. Sponsored by Chax Press & POG! Light Refreshment Available Only those wearing Covid Masks will be Admitted!  

Joanna Fuhrman is the author of six books of poetry, including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021), The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press 2016), and Pageant (Alice James Books 2009). She is a former poetry editor for Ping Pong and Boog City and served as the Monday-night coordinator for the poetry readings at The Poetry Project from 2001 to 2003 and the Wednesday-night coordinator from 2010 to 2011. She teaches creative and multimedia writing at Rutgers University.

Maryrose Larkin lives in Tucson, AZ, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press, 2007), DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009) and The name of This Intersection is Frost (Shearsman Books, 2010) Marrowing (Airfoil, 2010) and The Identification of Ghosts (Chax, 2013). Her work has been included in the anthologies I'll Down My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral.  Maryrose was a founding member of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, from 2002 until 2013,and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. She is an occasional participant in language master-based performance.  Maryrose received her MFA from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of Art. She keeps her friends close and her muses closer.

CHAX PRESS & POG are premiere literary arts organizations in Tucson, working to enhance the understanding and impact of innovative and experimental creative writing and arts practices. Find them at https://chax.org and https://pogartstucson.org