An Afternoon with Joanna Fuhrman, Hadara Bar-Nadav, AE Hines, & Megan Pinto (in person at HVWC)

Join Jennifer Franklin, Program Director, in person at HVWC for our fall poetry launch. She will welcome Joanna Fuhrman, Hadara Bar-Nadav, AE Hines, & Megan Pinto as they read from their new collections and engage in a Q&A. This event will take place in person at HVWC and will be capped at 70 people. Please reserve your seat in advance. The reading is free but donations towards the poets’ honoraria are always welcome and appreciated.

(Poets—Joanna Fuhrman will teach a craft class on surprise, risk, and discovery before the reading for the forst 12 students to enroll.)

Joanna Fuhrman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University and the author of seven books of poetry, including To a New Era  (Hanging Loose Press 2021) and the forthcoming book of prose poems about the internet Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press 2024). Poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2023, The Pushcart Prize anthology, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day and The Slowdown podcast. She first published with Hanging Loose Press as a teenager and became a co-editor in 2022.

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Hadara Bar-Nadav is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, and other honors. Her award-winning books include The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017); Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), Editor’s Selection/Runner-Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Fountain and Furnace (Tupelo Press, 2015), awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press, 2010), awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. In addition, she is co-author with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. (Pearson, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

AE Hines is the author of Adam in the Garden (Charlotte Lit Press, 2024) and Any Dumb Animal (Main Street Rag, 2021). He has won the Red Wheelbarrow Prize and Palette Poetry’s Love and Eros Prize, and has been a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. His poems have been widely published in such journals as The Southern Review, Rattle, The Sun, Prairie Schooner, New Letters and Alaska Quarterly. His literary criticism can be found in American Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Rain Taxi, andNorthwest Review. He received his MFA from Pacific University, and resides in Charlotte and Medellín, Colombia.

Megan Pinto’s poetry has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Guernica, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson and has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Poets & Writers, and The Peace Studio. She lives in New York City.

Praise for the Books:

“Many questions in Fuhrman’s poetry would have felt like science fiction a generation ago, aiming directly at our evolution alongside technology in a way that will itch your ear long after reading.” —CAConrad, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
“Joanna Fuhrman’s Data Mind braves through the minefield of social media, our individualism heightened, flattened, and eventually erased as we post selfies and search for community. Instead we find clickbait, bots, the dark web, and ChatGPT in these surreal prose poems that take on the shape of our phones and computer screens, the boxes we put ourselves in and then try to punch out of.  Fuhrman’s monitors are an eerie update to Baudelaire’s “Windows”—Perhaps you will say “Are you sure that your story is the real one?” Data Mind is gorgeous and complex, an important book for the digital age.”—Denise Duhamel, author of Blowout

The Animal Is Chemical is a book about the body and the mind-their response to illness and their rejection of, or dependence on, all we do to medicate what we cannot bear to feel. But it also seems to me an extended ars poetica that questions-and prays for!-poetry’s ability to heal: “The old wound is speaking / again through my back, / carving its blood alphabet.” Hadara Bar-Nadav organizes terror through a language so precise that every line proves how beauty can be wrought from pain. —Jericho Brown, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Judge of the 2022 Levis Prize in Poetry

“In these sharply resonant poems, Megan Pinto writes with grace and precision about self-discovery, grief, desire, and existential yearning. Each poem is finely crafted by a poet of incredible skill and vast expanses of feeling. I thought my sorrow could transform me, Pinto writes. I have no doubt it will transform readers of this outstanding collection as well.” —Matthew Olzmann

“In Saints of Little Faith by Megan Pinto, these are beautifully rendered ruminative and thoughtful coming- of-age poems populated with people, such as the speaker’s ill father and past lovers, miniature narratives, and small fragments that pass by and become a line, as if the reader is on a train at twilight. These are poems of longing and growing at once. Perhaps in these poems, longing and growing are the same thing, or at least in the same hemisphere. These are both poems and holes, where the speaker’s language attempts to fill the void with its painful music, as in the poem “Tunneling,” where the speaker is blanketed by language, while it softened all wailing into song.” —Victoria Chang