Poetry Reading: Joshua Gottlieb-Miller, Joanna Fuhrman, Sarah Matthes
Dybbuks, golems, and the algorithm: the fantastical and surreal are featured at this Austin book launch for Data Mind and Dybbuk Americana. This reading also features two UT-MFA grads and a Houston poet. A Q&A and book signing will follow.
✦✦✦ WHERE TO PARK ✦✦✦
Alienated Majesty is located at 613 W 29th St. There is (limited) free parking in our lot, as well as free street parking in the surrounding neighborhood.
✦✦✦ ABOUT THE READERS ✦✦✦
Joshua Gottlieb-Miller is the author of Dybbuk Americana (Dybbuk Americana – Wesleyan University Press (weslpress.org), 2024), from Wesleyan University Press, and The Art of Bagging (The Art of Bagging — Conduit, 2023). His poetry, essays, scholarship, hybrid, and multimedia writing has also been published in Brooklyn Rail, Image, Poet Lore, Pleiades, and Breaking the Glass: A Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology, among other venues, and previously he served as Digital Nonfiction Editor and Poetry Editor at Gulf Coast. He has been awarded support from the University of Houston, Yiddish Book Center, MacDowell Colony, Yetzirah, and elsewhere. He serves on the faculty at San Jacinto College.
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 Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2024). Her poems have appeared on the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day newsletter, The Slowdown and Having a Coke with You podcasts and in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. She first published with Hanging Loose Press as a teenager and became a co-editor in 2022.
Sarah Matthes is a poet from central New Jersey, which exists. Her debut collection of poetry Town Crier (Persea, 2021) won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming with Pleiades, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Yalobusha Review, poets.org, and elsewhere. Matthes has received support for her work from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Yiddish Book Center, and is the recipient of the 2019 Tor House Prize from the Robinson Jeffers Foundation and the 2019 Andrew Julius Gutow Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and a BA in English and Creative Writing from Yale University. She serves as the managing editor of Bat City Review, and lives in Austin TX.
✦✦✦ ABOUT ALIENATED MAJESTY BOOKS ✦✦✦
Alienated Majesty Books is a bookstore and community space that specializes in small presses, works in translation, comics, and the weird and radical. In 2024, AMB was voted Best Obscure Literature Collection by the Austin Chronicle.
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