Live Poetry with Thomas Devaney, Joanna Fuhrman, & Lauren Russell

Wednesday November 13, 2024 – 7:00pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street

And on Zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlcuygqTIjHdP11BPGj4EeBp6GLWDFSkDJ

 Thomas Devaney is a poet, facilitator, and educator based in Philadelphia. He is a Pew Fellow in the Arts with a focus on city building and community engagement. He wrote and co-director the film Bicentennial City with Green House Media (2020). Devaney is the author of Getting to Philadelphia (Hanging Loose Press, 2019) and You Are the Battery (Black Square Editions, 2019). His work is featured in Best American Poetry 2019. He teaches creative writing at Haverford College  and also works for the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University.

Joanna Fuhrman is the author of Freud in Brooklyn; Ugh Ugh Ocean; Moraine; Pageant, winner of the Kinereth Gensler Prize from Alice James Books; The Year of Yellow Butterflies; and To a New Era. Her poetry is humorous and surreal, mining references from pop and high culture. Writing about Fuhrman’s work for BOMBLOG, Susie DeFord observed that Fuhrman “takes the best of the surrealist and narrative poetry, weaving social and personal stories with extreme wit, imagination.” She has been poetry editor for Boog City and curator of the reading series for the Saint Mark’s Church Poetry Project in New York.

Lauren Russell is the author of A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close; Descent, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award; and What’s Hanging on the Hush. Russell has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and residencies from Millay Arts, Ucross, Yaddo, and MacDowell, among others. Her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, the New York Times Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and lives in Baltimore with her cats, Cat Jeoffry and Lady Day.