Maria Mazziotti Gillan Is One of the Jersey Voices at NJPAC

Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka and many other influential poets have called New Jersey home. Come hear former U.S. Poet Laureate and Long Branch native Robert Pinsky and a sampler of New Jersey poets when NJPAC presents Dodge Poetry at NJPAC: Jersey Voices, an evening with recognized poets from throughout New Jersey performing curated poetry readings Friday, April 24, 2015 at 8PM in The Chase Room.

Some of the poets who make the Garden State the Poetry State whose work will be covered include Renée Ashley, Cat Doty, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Kathleen Graber, Peter Murphy, James Richardson, Vincent Toro, BJ Ward, Joe Weil and Gretna Wilkinson.

Other themes to be explored in the three-part series are "Shuffle, Cramproll, Paradiddle and Stomp: The Rhythm of Tap Meets the Rhythm of Poetry" on March 6 and "Poetry Like Bread: Poems of Political and Social Consciousness" on May 15.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), located at One Center Street in downtown Newark, New Jersey, is among the largest performing arts centers in the United States and is the artistic, cultural, educational and civic center of New Jersey.

Visit www.njpac.org or call 888.GO.NJPAC for more information.

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Maria's Official Site is at MariaGillan.com.  Her latest publication is the poetry and art collection, The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets.