The next in-person Poetry Weekend Intensive with Maria Gillan and Kevin Carey will be held Friday evening, March 27, through Sunday, March 29, 2026, 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. This is an opportunity to retreat from the noise and busyness of everyday life and invite the muse to inspire us. In the workshops, we will capture our stories and memories on paper, and discover how poetry can, so often, save our lives. Participants will draft poems in the workshops and share their work from the workshops. They may also bring previously-written work for one-on-one critiquing sessions with Maria and Kevin, and to share at the group readings.
If you would like to register, please send the registration form with your check payable to Maria Gillan and sent to 40 Post Avenue, Hawthorne, NJ 07506. Payment must be submitted and attendance confirmed by March 15th.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the winner of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP, the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book, All That Lies Between Us. She has also received the Clara Lemlich Award for Social Activism (May 2022),
and a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts award from the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Salem State University. She is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, editor of the Paterson Literary Review, and Professor Emerita in creative writing at Binghamton University—SUNY. She has published 23 books, including her latest book, 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
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 and 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 2020, and a new middle-grade novel Junior Miles and the Junkman was published in 2023 from Fitzroy Books, an imprint of Regal House Publishing. More about Kevin at Kevincareywriter.com
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