On Thursday, April 23, 2026, from 2-4 pm, the FRIENDS of the Clifton Library are pleased to celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading by local poets. The featured poets are Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jim Gwyn, Fran Lombardi-Grahl, and Jacqueline Wooten-Rose.
An open reading follows the featured poets. All poems should be for a general audience, and poets will be limited to one poem, two pages maximum. Free admission. Poets and poetry-lovers, please join us at Clifton Main Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Avenue, Clifton, NJ 07011.
| MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN, whose most recent publications include When the Stars Were Still Visible (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2021) and the poetry and photography collaboration with Mark Hillringhouse, Paterson Light and Shadow (Serving House Books, 2017,) is the author of 24 books. She received the 2008 American Book Award for All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions). Ms. Gillan is the Editor Emerita of The Paterson Literary Review and Executive Director Emerita of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey. She founded The Poetry Center in 1980. She is also Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at Binghamton University-SUNY. |
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| | | JIM GWYN has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. Recent work is in The Paterson Literary Review, Lips, The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, and Seventh Quarry. He won first prize in the 2008 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards and he has eight Pushcart Prize nominations. Jim also is the Editor of poetry journal Lips . |
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| | FRANCES LOMBARDI-GRAHL teaches English as a Second Language in Paterson, NJ. She is a first prize co-winner in the 2026 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards and has been published in The Paterson Literary Review, Lips, The Red Wheelbarrow, and other journals. In addition, her chapbook “My Mother’s Hands” was published in 2019 by Feral Press. |
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| | | JACQUELINE WOOTEN-ROSE is a retired social worker and teacher, a tireless advocate for children, families, the elderly, and the homeless. Since grammar school she has been a passionate author of poems and stories. Her poem "America's Treasures" has received national recognition by the Poetry and Literature Center of the National Library of Congress. |
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