Maria and Joe, who have been friends for many years, read together for the Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches who showcase local poets and special guest poets via monthly readings and open mics.
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.
Joe Weil grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey and was described by The New York
Times as personifying that town: "working-class, irreverent, modest, but
open to the world and filled with a wealth of possibilities." He has four full-length collections of poetry, His latest collection of poems is The Great Grandmother Light published by NYQ Books. Weil's poems are about the difficulty of quarrying grace where no one expects it to come. His poems read as if he expects to be ambushed by grace at any given moment. This is the great grandmother light, a light present at all times and in all places, that he shares with his readers. He currently teaches undergraduate and graduate creative writing classes at Binghamton University.
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