Joanna Fuhrman
@joannafuhrman.bsky.social
Poet, 7 books including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021) and Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern 2024). Co-ed. Hanging Loose Press and Rutgers professor, joannafuhrman.com
It Wasn’t a ‘Civil War.’ It Was the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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Co-editor Joanna Fuhrman working with the team of Hanging Loose interns in Newark. #smallpresspoetry
Fired for teaching a short story. INSANE!! www.fire.org/news/she-was...
She was fired for teaching English literature in an English class. Now she’s suing.
In a story stranger than fiction, a Florida college fired an English professor for nothing more than teaching literature in a literature class.
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When I wrote Data Mind, people kept asking me why ghosts kept popping up in poems about digital life as a non-digital native, and I didn't have a great answer, so it's fascinating to see
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7d ago“Modern life is standing at a gas station sink with your hands under a motion-activated faucet waiting for water that doesn’t come.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
Instead of going to the protest, I wrote a poem about not going to the protest. Sigh.
A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
We’re getting into election protection formation in all 50 states. Join the nationwide organizing to make sure every eligible voter is able to cast their ballot and have it counted.
Hands Off Our Vote in 2026! · Indivisible
**We know that Trump and his Big Lie cronies are plotting to do everything they can to undermine our elections in 2026.** Whether it’s trying to end mail-in voting, targeting registration programs, bl...
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Brooklyn Book launch for Starr Davis' new book Affidavit at Brooklyn Poets this Friday.
"oh just praise what you can you smiling bag of death" Smile www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Smile’
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Two Poems by Joanna Fuhrman in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2026/06/30/t...
Two Poems by Joanna Fuhrman
Walking Through I’ve had enough of phone-hold music blasting through galaxies of deserted planetariums, of pinkie ring pledges &nbs…
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Remember when state racism was a dog whistle. Feels a lifetime ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...
A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees
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The NYTimes has been awful on trans issues, so I know lots of you have cancelled your subscription but this is sweet so sharing as a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/o...
Opinion | To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated
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I totally forgot about this Donna Brook poem so was surprised to see my name in it. (I’ll let you know when I stop crying.)
Checking in for a doctor's appointment online, and they ask for demographic info. There's a choice of 1) English 2) Old English (450-1100) or 3) Middle English (1100-1500).
Bill Kristol supporting AOC was not on my bingo card.
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2mo ago“If we are going to do a third Reconstruction we need politicians who conceive of themselves as working on behalf of a constituency, rather than would-be-saviors…And, like the people of Minnesota, we need to do the work to be that constituency…” www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...
Started Memorial Day weekend by seeing the 10:45 am showing of I Love Boosters. Can’t wait to see it again.
A favorite poem by Robert Creeley, on this, the day of his centenary.
I just noticed this book came out a month before Data Mind and has an almost identical cover and a similar theme. www.versobooks.com/products/286...
Amateurs!
Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of comm...
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I bought a cute strawberry plant at Trader Joe’s. Do you think polymarket wants to give me the odds on whether I can keep it alive long enough to make a berry?
