Poetry Weekend December 8-10 2023

Another Poetry Weekend Intensive with Maria Gillan and Kevin Carey will be held December 8 - December 10, 2023 in Mendham, NJ.  

Held at a Retreat House situated on 93 acres of wooded land with pathways for exploring the property, this serene, beautiful setting is perfect for contemplating nature and nurturing the creative spirit. 

To check on availability and for further information, contact Smita Desai sdesai@pccc.edu
and click here for complete information and a registration form.

Retreat House

Maria Mazziotti Gillan's newest poetry collection is When the Stars Were Still Visible (2021). Other recent publications are the poetry and photography collection, Paterson Light and Shadow, and 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 website is MariaMazziottiGillan.com and her poetry website is MariaGillan.com.

Kevin Carey is the Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University. He has published a chapbook of fiction from Red Bird Chapbooks, The Beach People (2014), and three books of poetry, The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) which was an Honor book for the Paterson Literary Prize, and Set in Stone (2020) all from CavanKerry Press.

His poems have twice appeared on The Writers Almanac on National Public Radio and on

The Academy of American Poets Poem a Day. Kevin is also a playwright and filmmaker. He

has co-directed & co-produced two documentaries about poets, All That Lies Between Us and

Unburying Malcolm Miller, which premiered at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in 2017.

Kevin has also co-authored a screenplay Peter’s Song which won Best Screenplay at the New

Hampshire Film Festival in 2009. His latest stage play The Stand or Sal is Dead, a murder

mystery comedy, premiered at the Actor’s Studio in Newburyport, MA in June, 2018. His

first crime novel, Murder in the Marsh, from Darkstroke Books, was released in October (2020). A new middle-grade novel Junior Miles and the Junkman will be published in September 2023 from Fitzroy Books, an imprint of Regal House Publishing.
More about Kevin at  Kevincareywriter.com