Rick Snyder and Joanna Fuhrman Reading / September 23, 2010
Event Report
The fall 2010 season of the UMaine New Writing Series gets started this Thursday, September 23, with a reading by poets Joanna Fuhrman and Rick Snyder, both making their first appearances in the Series.
Rick Snyder’s debut book of poems, Escape from Combray, appeared from Ugly Duckling Press in 2009. John Yau reviewed the volume favorably for the November 2009 issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Snyder’s poem “How Are You Doing” was picked by Ted Kooser for inclusion in the “American Life in Poetry” series of syndicated newspaper columns.
Joanna Fuhrman’s newest book is Pageant, published in 2009 by Maine-based Alice James Books. Her three previous collections, all from Hanging Loose, are Freud in Brooklyn (2000), Ugh Ugh Ocean (2003), and Moraine (2006).
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