Gerald Fleming

Gerald Fleming and Joanna Fuhrman

6 FEBRUARY 2025 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading with Joanna Fuhrman, Data Mind, and Gerald Fleming, The Bastard and the Bishop, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).


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MORE ABOUT THE READERS

Gerald Fleming's most recent poetry collection is The Bastard and the Bishop. Known for his inventive prose poems, his previous books include One, The Choreographer, Night of Pure Breathing, and Swimmer Climbing Onto Shore. Pablo Medina says, "Gerald Fleming's The Bastard and the Bishop is an awakening. Socially incisive and psychologically illuminating, it presents us with a full range of human passion and emotion." Fleming's work has appeared in many magazines, including New Letters, Michigan Quarterly Review, Hanging Loose, Carolina Quarterly, New World Writing, Volt, Paris Lit Up, Poetry Flash, and Versal. He's also written many books for teachers, having taught for thirty-seven years in San Francisco's public schools; the new one is Rain, Steam, and Speed: Building Fluency in Adolescent Writers. Fleming edited the print magazines Barnabe Mountain Review and Forward to Velma, and the vitreous magazine One (More) Glass; his latest editing work is The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel. He mostly lives in the Bay Area, and part of the year in Paris.
Joanna Fuhrman's new book of poems is Data Mind. Lucy Biederman says, "Fuhrman weaves together lyrical moments and moving prose that echo with emotional resonance as they speak to the confusion, cruelty, and strange beauty of life on the Internet. Memorable, surprising, and beautiful, Data Mind brings new and genuine light to questions of womanhood, the Internet, and the liminal spaces between them." Her previous collections include To a New Era, The Year of Yellow Butterflies, Pageant, Moraine, Ugh Ugh Ocean, and Freud in Brooklyn. A former poetry editor of Ping Pong and Boog City, she served as Monday night coordinator for poetry readings at the Poetry Project at Saint Mark's Church from 2001-2003 and Wednesday night coordinator from 2010-2011. She also co-coordinated readings at Artist Space in 2022. Along with many journals and anthologies her work has also appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry. Recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Joan Grayson Award, she became co-editor of Hanging Loose Press in 2022. She lives In Brooklyn with her husband, playwright Robert Kerr.