September 14, 2022

José Antonio Rodríguez

Mark Roemisch

José A. Rodríguez is an amazing poet who had the opportunity to work with when he was a graduate student and I was teaching at SUNY-Binghamton. 

José is a poet, memoirist, and translator. His latest books are This American Autopsy (poems) and the memoir House Built on Ashes. He teaches writing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

He will be reading in the Distinguished Poets Series at The Poetry Center at PCCC on December 3, 2022. He will also be the judge for the 2023 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Prize

One of his new poems, "Tender," was published in the August 22 issue of The New Yorker. 
along with audio of him reading the poem. See newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/tender

His website is www.jarodriguez.org



Maria Mazziotti Gillan's new poetry collection is When the Stars Were Still Visible (2021). Other recent publications are the poetry and photography collection, Paterson Light and Shadowand the poetry collections What Blooms in Winter and The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets  a pairing of her poems with her paintings. Maria's artist's website is MariaMazziottiGillan.com and her poetry website is MariaGillan.com.

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