An Evening with Julie Carr and Susan Briante

Name: An Evening with Julie Carr and Susan Briante
Start: 2026-03-11T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 232 Walnut St, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Colorado 80524

Schedule

Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

232 Walnut St, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Colorado 80524 | Fort Collins, CO

Old Firehouse Books is delighted to be welcoming Julie Carr and Susan Briante to share their poetry from their latest releases, The Garden and 13 Questions for the Next Economy! Both authors will be in store on March 11th from 6:00-7:00PM to read excerpts from their books, answer questions, and personalize copies for anyone. If you'd like to purchase some, you can do so in store or online! We can't wait to see you there!
About The Garden:
Through a spirited series of fractured and interwoven narratives, The Garden reorients themes of time, war, Jewishness, memory, techno-biology, friendship, and grief. The garden, as a foundational site of fallness, separation, and loss, is also where we discover desire, becoming, and poiesis. This work of essay-auto-fiction embraces the porous vulnerability of beings appearing in the overflow, the violence and rapture of the ongoing “now.” A city is invaded as a lost child is found, a swastika reanimates itself across the internet, a bullet grazes a girl in parking lot, a Moroccan Jewish grandmother witnesses Operation Torch from a Casablanca rooftop, a boy raised in Yokohama in the aftermath of the atomic blasts grows up to father a baby with a hole in his heart: these moments that resound backwards and at the same time shoot forwards, this “oftening, over-and-overing, and aftering,” is what we call history.
About 13 Questions for the Next Economy:
Susan Briante, award-winning poet and chronicler of globalization, The Great Recession, and the militarization of daily life, returns with 13 Questions for the Next Economy. This visionary collection, from the author of the Poetry Foundation's Pegasus prize-winning Defacing the Monument, weaves together selections from her four previous books with arresting new poems and visuals. Across these pages, NAFTA, industrial ruins, falling market indices, and the archives of state violence form interdependent constellations. A child is born, parents die, and an economic system continues to extract its lethal toll. "Where does the riot begin?" Briante asks. Here, in poetry that charts how too-late capitalism desecrates contemporary lives. Adopting the aesthetics and the urgency of the zine, Briante's work charts interconnected constellations of economic and political systems that govern our lives. These systems (like language) leave their mark on everything. And yet, poems resist. In a perfect world, you would pick up this book from a blanket laid out on a sidewalk alongside knock-off Doc Martens, old magazines, cellophaned wrapped candy, and small bundles of wildflowers. You might not pay for it. You'd read it, make a copy, pass it on.
About Julie Carr:
Julie Carr’s recent books are The Garden; Underscore; and Mud, Blood, & Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, & Spiritualism in the American West. Her co-translations of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory and The Book of Skies, were published by Commune Editions & Pamenar Press. Overflow, a trilogy, will be published sequentially over the next few years. She lives in Denver where she co-runs Counterpath, teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder, & hosts the podcast “Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone.”
About Susan Briante:
Susan Briante is the author of Defacing the Monument (2020), essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics and the state, winner of the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism in 2021. Her work can be found in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Poetry (2020), and The Brooklyn Rail. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona and directs the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program, bringing students to the US-Mexico border to collaborate with community groups. 13 Questions for the Next Economy: New and Selected Works was published by Noemi Press in October 2025.