Poetry Workshops with Rachel Griffiths and Tony Gloeggler April 2

As part of the Distinguished Poets Series, there will be in-person workshops with Rachel Eliza Griffiths or Tony Gloeggler on the morning of April 2, 2022 at the Poetry Center in Paterson.

Griffiths and Gleoggler will be reading at the Poetry Center at 1 PM that day as part of the Paterson Poetry Prize winners and finalists' reading.

Information and registration form for either workshop

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, novelist, and visual artist. Her most recent collection, Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton 2020), is the winner of the 2021 Paterson Poetry Prize, the 2021 Hurston/Wright Legacy word, and a 2021 finalist for the NAACP Image Award. Griffiths’ literary and visual work has appeared widely, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, Best American Poetry (2020, 2021), and many others.

She is the recipient of fellowships, including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Cave Canem, Kimbilio, and Yaddo. Her debut novel, Promise, is forthcoming from Random House in 2023. She lives in New York City.

Tony Gloeggler is a lifelong resident of NYC who’s managed a group home for developmentally disabled men for over 40 years in Brooklyn. His chapbook, One On One, won the 1998 Pearl Poetry Prize, and his first full-length collection, One Wish Left, (Pavement Saw Press) went into a 2nd printing in 2007. Until The Last Light Leaves, (NYQ Books) was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award in 2016. His newest book is What Kind of Man (NYQ Books, 2020).