On Saturday, March 14 at 1pm, sam sax and Dante Di Stefano will read as part of the Distinguished Poets Series at the Poetry Center at PCCC in Paterson.
sam sax is a queer, Jewish, writer & educator. The author of Madness (Penguin, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series & ‘Bury It’ (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. sam has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, & the MacDowell Colony. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems in BuzzFeed, The Nation, The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, & other journals. In 2018, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation & is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Dante Di Stefano is the author of Angels and Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in American Life in Poetry, Best American Poetry 2018, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Along with María Isabel Álvarez, he co-edited the anthology Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Binghamton University and is the poetry editor for the DIALOGIST. He teaches high school English in Endicott, NY.
The Distinguished Poets Series is held on Saturdays at 1 pm at the Poetry Center located 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 as 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. To confirm that workshops are still open to registration, email sdesai@pccc.edu or call 973-684-6555.
The Hamilton Club Building is wheelchair accessible; large print materials and FM assistive listening devices available on request. The Poetry Center at PCCC is funded, in part, by a grant from the NJ State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Please contact 973-684-6555 for availability.
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