Join us at the garden for a belated book launch of To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021) and 50th birthday poetry reading for its author, Joanna Fuhrman, whose sixth poetry collection is a fearless blend of the real and the surreal, the political and the personal, all with the marks of her own kind of accelerated dizzying style that nevertheless brings you along with it.

Numerous poets will read new work on new eras, aging and birthdays. Special guests include Martine Bellen, Jiwon Choi, Gregory Crosby, Elaine Equi, Stacy Gnall, Nada Gordon, Caroline Hagood, Christine Hamm, Emily Wallis Hughes, Laurel Kallen, Adeena Karasick, Kate Lutzner, Shelley Marlow, Sheila Maldonado, Suzanne Osborne, Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Jerome Sala, Yerra Sugarman, and Abigail Welhouse.

Doors: 6:00pm

Readings: 6:30pm

Le Petit Versailles

247 East 2nd St. / 346 East Houston St. (between Avenues B & C)