The Distinguished Poets Series of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College (PCCC) is presenting a reading by Marie Howe and Richard Blanco on Saturday, March 4.
The reading is at 1 p.m. at the historic Hamilton Club, 32 Church St., Paterson. The program is free and an open reading follows. Parking is available at the PCCC open faculty lot on College Blvd., between Memorial Dr. and Church St.
For more info call (973) 684-6555 or visit www.poetrycenterpccc.com
Born in Rochester, New York, Marie Howe attended the University of Windsor, and earned an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied with Stanley Kunitz, whom she refers to as “my true teacher.”
What the Living Do (1997), an elegy to her brother John, was praised by Publishers Weekly as one of the five best poetry collections of the year. Stripping her poems of metaphor, Howe composed the collection as a transparent, accessible documentary of loss.
In The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008), Howe distanced herself from the personal narrative and returned to, as she describes in the AGNI interview, her “obsess[ion] with the metaphysical, the spiritual dimensions of life as they present themselves in this world.” In these poems Howe “makes metaphor matter and material metaphysical,” according to Brenda Shaughnessy in Publishers Weekly.
Blanco was born in Madrid in 1968, immigrating as an infant with his Cuban-exile family to the United States. He was raised and educated in Miami, earning a B.S. in civil engineering and a M.F.A. in creative writing from Florida International University. Blanco has been a practicing engineer, writer and poet since 1991.
His books, in order of publication, are: City of a Hundred Fires (1998), Directions to the Beach of the Dead (2005), Looking for the Gulf Motel (2012), One Today (2013), Boston Strong (2013), and For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey (2013).
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