On Saturday, April 5, 2025, Paterson Poetry Prize 2024 Winner Afaa M. Weaver will give a reading and workshop at the Poetry Center at PCCC in Paterson, NJ.
Afaa will also conduct a poetry workshop in the morning before his reading. Workshop registration is required along with a $20 fee. Registration information is available at poetrycenterpccc.com/workshops. Check on registration availability by emailing Cynthia Pagan at the Poetry Center. The poetry reading will begin at 1 pm and is free and open to the public. Click for directions and parking information
Afaa M. Weaver's poetry collection, A Fire in the Hills (Red Hen Press, Pasadena, CA) was selected by Maria Gillan who said, "Afaa M. Weaver’s book, sparks a fire in the heart. Weaver has been writing heart-wrenching, honest poems, and this book continues his tradition of making music out of sorrow and pain and finding the sweetness hidden within our daily lives.”
"The splendid A Fire in the Hills holds lyrical inventories, telepathic persona poems, "southern chants for spells," "spinning top hairdos," and invented forms. Afaa Weaver can write any kind of poem you can imagine. He is our black nonconforming formalist breaking free of form to shape a spirit of witness. He is both our sage bear-poet of wisdom and our wily fox-poet of mischief. He's been writing long enough to resist all classifications except that of Master Poet." - --Terrance Hayes
Afaa M. Weaver’s most recent collection of poetry is A Fire in the Hills. His awards include the Wallace Stevens, Kingsley Tufts, and St. Botolph’s 2019 Distinguished Artist, as well as medals from the Beijing Writers Association, and Taiwan’s Artists and Writers Association. Afaa is a Guggenheim fellow, a Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets, a professor emeritus at Simmons University, and guest MFA faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. His papers are held in the Howard Gotlieb Center at Boston University. With his wife Kristen Skedgell, Afaa lives in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York.
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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