The
Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College is presenting on
April 11, 2026, poetry workshops by the Paterson Poetry Prize Winners
Joan Kwon Glass and Nancy Miller Gomez.
There are still seats open for workshops with either poet. Registration is required for workshops. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be provided for workshop participants. You can confirm registration availability by emailing Cynthia Pagan at
the Poetry Center. Workshops are available for a fee of $20. In-person
workshops will be held at the Poetry Center in Paterson from 10 AM to
12 PM.
Following
their workshop, poets will give a reading at 1 pm. Poetry Center
readings are always free and open to the public. These readings are
recorded and archived for later viewing on the Poetry Center’s YouTube channel.
Nancy Miller Gomez (she/her) is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books), winner of the 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize, and Punishment (Rattle Chapbook Series). An Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, LitHub, Shenandoah, New Ohio Review, Rattle, Massachusetts Review, River Styx, Verse Daily, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. She received a special mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology and was awarded a fellowship from the Jentel Foundation. Gomez co-founded an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison, the Santa Cruz County Jails, the Juvenile Hall, and as part of Cornell University’s Prison Education Program. She earned a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a J.D. from the University of San Diego, an MFA in Writing from Pacific University, and has worked as an attorney and a TV producer. Originally from Kansas, she now lives with her family in Northern California. As the Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz, she is working with the County Office of Education to provide poetry workshops to youth throughout the county.
Joan Kwon Glass
is a diasporic, mixed-race, Korean American poet, author of the poetry
collection DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (Perugia Press, 2024), which
won the 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize and the Eric Hoffer Book Award for
Poetry and was a finalist for the 2025 Balcones Poetry Prize. Her book,
NIGHT SWIM, won the 2021 Diode Book Prize. Joan’s poems have been
featured on NPR and in Poetry, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Passages
North, Poetry Northwest, Korea Quarterly, Best American Poetry, Prairie
Schooner, and elsewhere. She has been a featured reader at the
Westchester Poetry Festival, the Boston Book Festival, and MASS Poetry
and is a 2025 SWWIM writer in residence. Joan has served or is scheduled
to serve as a visiting writer at Amherst College, Smith College,
Wesleyan University, The New School, West Chester University, UCONN and
elsewhere. She teaches workshops at Brooklyn Poets, Poets House, and
Hudson Valley Writers Center and lives in Milford, CT.
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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