Josh Fomon in Conversation with Zach Savich
Schedule
Sat Feb 21 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118 | Cleveland Heights, OH
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Poet Josh Fomon, author of Our Human Shores will be in conversation with Zach Savich on Saturday, February 21st at 7 pm.Our Human Shores is a lyrical exploration of the Anthropocene, climate change, ecopoetics, inequality, and a speculative meditation on what life means staring down the apocalypse.
"This is a book in which the disparate angels of the self scour future ruins and try to say 'I love you' amidst a disintegrating landscape where I and Thou must learn to reach for one another and sing as one upon our human shores the necessary music of our time. And I am grateful."--Nicholas Gulig, 2023-24 Wisconsin Poet Laureate
Josh Fomon is the author of Our Human Shores and Though We Bled Meticulously, both published by Black Ocean. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Afternoon Visitor, Caketrain, DIAGRAM, DREGINALD, The Georgia Review, jubilat, mercury firs, Poetry Northwest, TYPO, and Yalobusha Review. He lives on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples in Seattle.
Zach Savich is a poet and nonfiction writer. His books include the poetry collections Momently (2024) and Daybed (2018) and the memoir Diving Makes the Water Deep (2016).
Savich's work has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, the CSU Poetry Center's Open Award, and other honors. His poetry, essays, reviews, and collaborative work have appeared widely in journals and anthologies including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Best New Poets, Georgia Review and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day. He is an instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
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