In-Person | Wednesday | May 21 | 7-9pm
Celebrate the newest publications from Elaine Equi and Joanna Fuhrman! Elaine Equi’s Out of the Blank (Coffee House Press, 2025) moves through familial relationships, time, and the body with her signature wit and curiosity. Fuhrman confronts the foreign landscape of the online world in Data Mind (Northwestern University Press, 2024), while remixing the traditional trope with her signature comic and surrealist flair.
Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow. Copies of Out of the Blank (Coffee House Press, 2025) and Data Mind (Northwestern University Press, 2024) will be available for purchase.
Events at Poets House are popular, and seating is first-come, first-seated. We have several seats reserved for people with access needs. If events reach capacity, seating will be available in an overflow viewing room.
About the poets:
Elaine Equi’s latest book is Out of the Blank. Her other books include Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award and on the short list for the Griffin Poetry Prize; and Sentences and Rain. Widely published and anthologized, her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Big Other, The Nation, The New Yorker, and many other journals. In 2023, she was the guest editor of the annual anthology, Best American Poetry. In 2024, she received a Guggenheim fellowship. She has taught in many creative writing programs including those at New York University, City College of New York, and The New School. She lives in New York with her husband, the poet Jerome Sala.
Joanna Fuhrman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University and the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2024). Fuhrman’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2023, The Pushcart Prize anthology, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and The Slowdown podcast. New poems and poetry videos are forthcoming in Fou; Nu Review; Posit; The Texas Review; and Terrain. She first published with Hanging Loose Press as a teenager and became a co-editor in 2022.