Virtual Poetry Reading With Daniel Donaghy August 8

The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College presents a poetry reading as part of its Distinguished Poets Series with Daniel Donaghy.

The reading was originally scheduled for April of this year as part of one for Winners and Finalists of the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize and was postponed due to the COVID-19 Crisis. The April reading was to include winners Daniel Donaghy, for his book Somerset, and  Sean Thomas Dougherty, forThe Second O of Sorrow.

The reading will be done virtually on Saturday, August 8, 2020
at 11:30 a.m.  ̶  Noon.  To join, use this Livestream YouTube link https://youtu.be/jmF3DuWvHf0

Daniel Donaghy is the author of three book-length collections of poems, Somerset (NYQ Books, New York, NY), Start with the Trouble (U of Arkansas Press) and Streetfighting (BkMk Press), and two chapbooks, Stadium Traffic and Kensington Avenue. 

Originally from Philadelphia, he is a Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University, where he teaches courses in poetry and poetry writing, and edits, with his students, a new poetry journal, called Here. While at Eastern, he has received the university's Connecticut State University System's Norton Mezvinsky Trustees Research Award and the Board of Regents Teaching Award. He is currently the Poet Laureate of Windham County in Connecticut.