Poetry Reading with Eric Shoemaker and Emily Marie Passos Duffy

Eric Shoemaker and Emily Marie Passos Duffy will be reading from their poetry collections at The Book Cellar!

About the poets:

Robert Eric Shoemaker is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Eric has published three books of hybrid poetry, memoir, and playwriting: Ca’Venezia (2021, Partial Press), We Knew No Mortality (2018, Acta Publications), and 30 Days Dry (2015, Thought Collection Publishing). Eric has published poetry in Transom, Analogies & Allegories, Tiny Spoon, Bombay Gin, The Gordian Review, Barely South Review, Verde Qué Te Quiero Verde, Kairos, and other journals; prose in Jacket2, Signs and Society, Entropy, Miracle Monocle, and Gender Forum; translations in Rattle, Asymptote, Exchanges, The Adirondack Review, and Columbia Journal; and playwriting in Plath Profiles. His plays have been produced in Chicago and New York; productions and readings include PLATH/HUGHES; The House of Bernarda Alba; Lead Me Into Dark; Phaedra, Released; and Barrens, which won the 2021 Orinda Award for Best Translation.

Eric holds a PhD in Humanities from the University of Louisville, an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University, and a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Chicago. Eric’s writing focuses on magical poetics and queer theory, public history, and translation. Eric is the Digital Archive Editor at the Poetry Foundation, where he curates, commissions, and writes for poetryfoundation.org. Follow Eric at reshoemaker.com.

Emily Marie Passos Duffy is a Lisbon-based poet and itinerant performing artist. She is the author of the poetry collection, Hemorrhaging Want & Water (Perennial Press, 2023). She was a finalist for the Noemi Press 2020 Book Award and a finalist of the 2020 Inverted Syntax Sublingua Prize for Poetry. She was named a 2020 Disquiet International Luso-American fellow. Her written work has appeared in Inverted Syntax, Portland Review, Dirt Media, Boulder Weekly, Spit Poet Zine, Terra – uma poética de nós, and collective.aporia. She received her MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. She is a doctoral student in Translation Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and NOVA University, where she studies intersections of literary translation, translator testimony, and intimacy.