Former broadcast news anchor Francesca Marguerite Maximé won the 2020 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College.
Francesca here describes how poetry helped her to turn her life around, and start a new career as a life coach and trauma healer.
She reads her winning poem “Pleather” at the 40th-anniversary celebration of the Poetry Center at PCCC, founded by poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan.
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 artist's website is MariaMazziottiGillan.com and her poetry website is MariaGillan.com.
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