The Poetry Center at PCCC launches its 2019-2020 Distinguished Poets Series on Saturday, October 5, 2019, at 1pm, with the first reading in the series features poets Molly Peacock and Rachel Wiley.
2020 marks the 40th Anniversary of the Poetry Center which is located on the campus of Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey.
Information on this series and all readings at the Center and poet biographies are on
poetrycenterpccc.com/readings. A downloadable brochure is also available there.
The Distinguished Poets Series readings are held on Saturdays at 1 pm at the Poetry Center located at 32 Church Street, Paterson, NJ.
All readings are free and open to the public. Open readings follow the featured readers when time allows.
Molly Peacock 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.
mollypeacock.org
Rachel Wiley is a queer, biracial poet, performer, feminist, and fat liberationist from Columbus, Ohio. She is a fellow and faculty member of the Pink Door Writing Retreat held each year in Rochester, New York, for women and nonbinary writers of color. Her poetry collection,
Nothing is Okay, was published in March 2018 by Button Poetry and spent time as Amazon’s #1 Gay & Lesbian Poetry Collection, and a full-length collection of poems,
Fat Girl Finishing School, was published by Timber Mouse Press. She has a degree in Theatre Studies and has competed in multiple National Poetry Slam Competitions. Her work has been featured by the
Huffington Post, Everyday Feminism, Frigg Magazine, Drunken Boat, and
Nailed Magazine.
wileypoetry.weebly.com
Workshops with Molly Peacock or Rachel Wiley are from 10 am - 12 pm. For information about the workshops offered by these poets on the mornings of their readings and a printable registration form, go to poetrycenterpccc.com/workshops
Maria Mazziotti Gillan's most recent books are the poetry and photography collection, Paterson Light and Shadow and the poetry collection, What Blooms in Winter. Her collection of poems paired with some of her paintings is The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets. Her new artist website is at MariaMazziottiGillan.com. Maria's poetry website is MariaGillan.com.
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