Molly Peacock and Patricia Smith to Read March 2 in Paterson

Molly Peacock & Patricia Smith will be the featured readers on March 2, 2019 as part of the Distinguished Poets Series at the Poetry Center at PCCC.

Molly Peacock, a Binghamton alumna, is the author of seven books of poetry, including The Analyst and Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems from W.W. Norton. Her poems appear in leading literary journals such as Poetry and The Hudson Review and are anthologized in The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Peacock was co-creator of Poetry in Motion on New York City’s subways and buses and inaugurated The Best Canadian Poetry series. She is also the author of the noted biography The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72, named a Book of the Year by The Economist, Booklist, The London Evening Standard, and The Irish Times. She wrote and performed “The Shimmering Verge,” an Off-Broadway one-woman theatre piece in poems, and is a subject in the documentaries A Life Outside Convention and My So-Called Selfish Life, about women’s choices not to have children. Her literary papers are held at the Binghamton University Library. Her website is mollypeacock.org

               

Patricia Smith is the author of seven books of poetry, including: Incendiary Art (2017), winner of an NAACP Image Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (2012), winner of the 2013 Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the 2014 Bobbitt National Prize from the Library of Congress, and finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and one of NPR’s Top 5 Books of 2008; and Teahouse of the Almighty (2006), a National Poetry Series selection and winner of the Hurston/Wright Award. Smith is winner of the Chautauqua Literary Journal Award and two Pushcart Prizes for “Laugh Your Troubles Away” and “The Way Pilots Walk.”

The Distinguished Poets Series is held on Saturdays at 1 pm at the Poetry Center ocated in the Hamilton Club at 32 Church Street, Paterson, New Jersey. (directions)

All readings are free and open to the public. Open readings follow the featured readers when time allows. 

Writing workshops are held on the mornings of these readings with the poets in the same location. Pre-registration is required for these workshops and a fee of $20 must be submitted with registration. For questions and to confirm that workshops are still open to registration, email sdesai@pccc.edu or call 973-684-6555.

The Poetry Center at PCCC strives to maintain a barrier-free facility including complete access for patrons using wheelchairs, large print materials, and FM listening systems. Please contact 973-684-6555 for availability.