CMarie Fuhrman, Idaho Author (Speakers at the Center)

Upcoming Date and Time

• Wednesday, Oct 1, 2025  6:30pm - 8pm

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The Power of Articles: How A, An, and The Can Shape Our Perceptions
What is the difference between “a crisis” and “the crisis”? Everything. In our writing and speech, the smallest words do the heaviest lifting, serving as powerful and nearly invisible tools of persuasion.

This presentation investigates how articles—a, an, and the—and their deliberate absence shape our world. We’ll explore how this choice can influence our perceptions of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as our relationship with the more-than-human world. You’ll see how a single decision can either build a bridge of understanding or create a barrier of othering, fundamentally altering how we connect with each other.

Presenter: CMarie Fuhrman is a writer, teacher, and part-time fire lookout whose work is inspired by the Western landscape. She is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam, as well as the co-editor of two significant anthologies, Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has poetry and nonfiction published or forthcoming in a variety of publications, including Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Northwest Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Poetry Northwest, Big Sky Journal, and various anthologies. CMarie is the director of the Elk River Writers Workshop and an award-winning columnist for The Inlander. She is the Associate Director of Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing, and founder of Confluence Writing Community. CMarie is the host of Terra Firma, a Colorado Public Radio program. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.