Writers Here & Now: Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes & Joshua Weiner
Writers Here & Now: Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes & Joshua Weiner
Please join us for a Writers Here and Now event featuring Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes and Joshua Weiner. The reading will start at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is a writer and teacher. She is the author of "Clear Water" (Flatiron Books, 2026), Are We Ever Our Own (winner of the 2022 BOA Short Fiction Prize) and The Sleeping World (Touchstone-Simon & Schuster, 2016).
She has received fellowships and awards from Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay Artists in Residency, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Blue Mountain Center, and Bread Loaf. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, New England Review, The Georgia Review, The Common, One Story, and elsewhere.
Gabrielle holds a BA from Brown University, an MFA from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and a PHD from the University of Georgia. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland. She grew up in Wisconsin and lives in Maryland with her family.
Joshua Weiner is a poet living in Washington D.C. with his wife wife, the novelist Sarah Blake, and their two boys. Joshua spends a lot of his time reading poems and trying to write them, but on occasion he commits criticism, and have published research on the poets Thomas McGrath, Mina Loy, and Thom Gunn, as well as essays on Emily Dickinson & Thelonious Monk, Fulke Greville, Lynette Roberts, Charles Reznikoff, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Koch, William Carlos Williams, and others. He also written on German language poets and fiction writers, such as Gottfried Benn, Ernst Meister, Lutz Seiler, Anna Seghers, Christa Wolf, Brecht, and Rilke; and has tried his hand at translating some of them as well. In addition to teaching the poetry workshops offered by the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Maryland, he has taught graduate seminars on the long poem; modern British poetry; postmodern American poetry; poetry & materialism from Edmund Spenser to Anne Carson (with Gerard Passannante); 'Ecopoetics: A Genealogy (with Gerard Passannante); a transhistorical/transnational poetics seminar called 'God Death Time Space Language Form'; and, most recently, 'Squaring the Circle: Readings in the Prose Poem, 1869-2019.'
He is the translator of "The Ordinary Rilke," the experimental poetry sequence der gewöhnliche rilke by the Austrian writer Ernst Jandl.