The Poetry Center at PCCC offers readings as part of its Distinguished Poets Series. In-person readings begin at 1 PM in the Hamilton Club in Paterson NJ (directions to Hamilton Club). All readings are free and open to the public.
The Poetry Center offers poetry writing workshops in conjunction with the Distinguished Poets Reading Series that are held from 10am-12pm. Pr-registration is required.
The first reading in the 2024-25 Series will be held Saturday, December 7
Saida Agostini is a queer Afro-Guyanese poet whose work explores how Black folks harness mythology to enter the fantastic. Her work is featured or forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem a Day, Poet Lore, Plume, amongst others. Saida’s work can be found in several anthologies, including Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Sexuality and Joy. Her first full length collection let the dead in was released by Alan Squire Publishing (March 2022). A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, Saida is a two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee and Best of the Net Finalist. She lives online at www.saidaagostini.com.
Marie Howe is the author of five volumes of poetry, New and Selected Poems; Magdalene: Poems; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; The Good Thief; and What the Living Do, and she is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic.
Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni,
Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. She
has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a
recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and Stanley Kunitz selected
Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of
Poets. In 2015, she received the Academy of American Poets Poetry
Fellowship which recognizes distinguished poetic achievement. From
2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State.
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