March 7 Two Heads: Joanna Fuhrman & Toni Simon

In Joanna Fuhrman’s and Toni Simon’s mixed-media literary project, Egyptian gods, stripped of their context and role, wander various New York City (mainly Brooklyn) neighborhoods trying to figure out where they belong, how to make sense of what they have lost, and how to get along with one another. Joanna Fuhrman writes poems in response to the photographs.




The artists have created several series of photo/poem combinations in Chinatown, the Reversible Destiny Studio, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Gowanus and Red Hook.


March 7, 2014

7 pm

Berl's Poetry Shop

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Joanna Fuhrman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Pageant (2009) and Moraine (2006), as well as the chapbook The Emotive Function (2011). Recent poems appear in current issues of Court Green and Puerto del Sol. Her collaborations with Toni Simon appear in Hanging Loose (issue 100) and online at paperbag, http://www.talismanmag.net/fuhrmansimon.html and posit. For more see: joannafuhrman.com


Toni Simon is a multimedia artist living in Brooklyn. Her illustrated book of prose poetry Earth After Earth was published by Lunar Chandelier Press (2012). Her recent illustrated prose appears in Ping Pong and The Portable Boog Reader 7. Simon’s drawings have been exhibited at the Drawing Center and A.I.R. Gallery in NYC. Her video animations, paintings and sculpture can be viewed at http://tonisimonart.blogspot.com/ <http://tonisimonart.blogspot.com/>