The Poetry Center at PCCC offers readings and workshops as part of the Distinguished Poets Series. The first event of winter 2025 will be a virtual workshop and reading with Tony Medina on Saturday, January 18.
Workshops via Zoom will run from 1 PM to 2:30 PM (EST) and be followed by the poet’s reading from 2:30 PM to 3 PM (ET). Registration and a fee of $20 are required. See the website for registration information.
The reading is free and open to all Virtual Reading Link
Tony Medina was born in the South Bronx, raised in the Throgs Neck Housing projects, and is a Veteran of the United States Army. Recently appointed Associate Chair and Director of Creative Writing in the Department of Literature and Writing at Howard University, he holds a master’s and PhD from Binghamton University, SUNY.
A multi-genre author/editor of 25 award-winning books for adults and young people, Medina’s work appears in over 160 anthologies and journals, including “Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku” and “I’ve Got the Covid Blues,” featured in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. Among Medina’s recent titles are the Black Lives Matter anthology, Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky (anthology); Death, With Occasional Smiling (poetry); Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy (children’s); I Am Alfonso Jones (graphic novel); Che Che Colé (fiction); and his Gaza suite, Because the Sky (Sable Books, 2024). His other titles, Serious Trouble: Poems Selected, Poems New and Everywhere Drums: Poets from the Black Arts to Black Lives Matter (coedited with Mudiwa Pettus) as well as a hybrid collection of poetry, fiction and art, Rock the Bells: For Hip Hop @50 (tome), are forthcoming.
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.
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