10/15/2026
The Humanities Center at is excited to welcome CMarie Fuhrman for a keynote address as part of our NEA America 250 Big Reads program. Her lecture, “Belonging: Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise, and the Language of Inclusion" will be today, October 15, at 5:00 p.m. in the GBC Library. Contact katie(dot)karnehmesh(at)gbcnv(dot)edu for the Zoom link. This is a free event funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. All are welcome.
CMarie Fuhrman is a poet, essayist, teacher, and the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, named the 2026 Idaho Book of the Year, and Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems. She is co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry, winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award and other honors, and Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in publications including Emergence Magazine, Terrain.org, Alta, Poetry Northwest, Northwest Review, and numerous anthologies. She is an award-winning columnist for the Inlander, Director of the Elk River Writers Workshop, and host of Terra Firma. Fuhrman is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and spends summers working as a fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains. Her writing and teaching are deeply concerned with place, belonging, the more-than-human world, and the relationships language makes possible. She lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.
