[Local events] Spare Room reading: Coleman, Fuhrman, Mangold, Morse, Friday 5/31

[Sam Lohmann]

*Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a reading by*

*JEN COLEMANJOANNA FUHRMAN*
*SARAH MANGOLD &*
*JESSE MORSE*

*Friday, May 31*
*7:30 pm*

Free admission
Doors open at 7:00 pm; no late entry

*Passages Bookshop*
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209

info at passagesbookshop.com
503-388-7665

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*Upcoming Event at Passages*
June 8       Gillian Conoley, Alex Mattraw, Sarah Rosenthal, & Valerie
Witte (Spare Room reading)
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*Jen Coleman* is author of PSALMS FOR DOGS AND SORCERERS
<https://www.tremblingpillowpress.com/psalms-for-dogs-and-sorcerers/>, from
Trembling Pillow Press, winner of the 2013 Bob Kaufman Book Prize selected
by poet Dara Wier. Her second book, WE DENIZENS, was released from
Furniture Press in 2016. Jen has been called “the heart’s bittersweet
cartoonist” by poet Graham Foust, and “Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Bishop’s
secret lovechild” by poet Richard Roundy. Jen was built for comfort, not
for speed.

*Joanna Fuhrman*  <http://joannafuhrman.com/>is an Assistant Teaching
Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University and the author of seven
books of poetry, including *To a New Era
<https://www.hangingloosepress.com/book/to-a-new-era/>*  (Hanging Loose
Press 2021) and the forthcoming book of prose poems about the internet *Data
Mind
<https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147744/data-mind/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3_r5hevryI_3Cmt_dFErD14TnPaQ1AjUGyAoQtV4Mo6VSLhJWQyLtih3s_aem_Afvl0AzZolw2Su1TLzwDEo34jOMbFud-IFsrSuJblrM6g8PoG8Ecgmn4E_P0lv6mTKd29PW1mD8MWWBiTxUOviCn>
*(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. She lives in Brooklyn.

*Sarah Mangold* <http://www.sarahmangold.com/> is the author of *Her
Wilderness Will Be Her Manners* (Fordham University Press, 2021), selected
by Cynthia Hogue for the POL Prize,* Giraffes of Devotion* (Kore Press,
2016),* Electrical Theories of Femininity* (Black Radish Books, 2015),
*Household
Mechanics* (New Issues, 2002), selected by C.D.  Wright for the New Issues
Poetry Prize and most recently *The Atom* (Wave Books, 2023), a chapbook
inspired by Swedish artist and medium Hilma af Klint. Mangold is the
recipient of a NEA poetry fellowship and support from Artist Trust
GAP.  Originally from Oklahoma, she now lives and works in Edmonds, WA.

*Jesse Morse* lives in SE Portland at the base of an urban volcano. He is
the author of *Flash Floods are Anomalies
<https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/flash-floods-are-anomalies-by-jesse-morse/>
*(Finishing
Line Press, 2021). For the last two years, he has been writing a memoir of
reviews of terrible action movies, as well as some sonnets, in the
tradition of anti-sonnets. He plays guitar and sings around town (currently
in Greatest Country Missus <https://greatestcountrymissus.bandcamp.com/>)
and co-directs, with his wife Jennifer Denrow, the annual, one-day Creative
Writing Spring Workshop (mega-fest) at Clark College in Vancouver,
Washington, where he professors English. He is the proud father of Wren.
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