Poetry READINGS and Events
The Poetry Center at PCCC offers readings as part of the Distinguished Poets Series. It also hosts readings with poets who have been finalists and winners of contests and awards sponsored by the Center, including The Paterson Poetry Prize and The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. There is an annual reading to celebrate the latest issue of the Paterson Literary Review and for occasional anthologies sponsored by the Center. Many of the readings and workshops offered at The Poetry Center are also featured on Maria Mazziotti Gillan's blog.
The Poetry Center will be holding both virtual readings and in-person events. The Zoom links for virtual events will take you to the live event and later to the archived recording.
Virtual readings begin at 2:30 PM ET unless otherwise noted below.
In-person readings begin at 1 PM in the Hamilton Club unless otherwise noted below. (directions to Hamilton Club)
Recent readings from the Poetry Center and archived videos from years past are now available on the Poetry Center at PCCC’s YouTube Channel.
Poetry workshops are conducted by most of the featured poets before their readings. For more information on how to register, see the Workshops page.
Joshua Bennett is a Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT. He is the author of five books of poetry, criticism, and narrative nonfiction: Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf, 2023); The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022), which won the Paterson Poetry Prize, was longlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and is currently being adapted for television in collaboration with Warner Brothers Studios; Owed (Penguin, 2020), a finalist for the New England Book Award; Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), winner of the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize, and The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. he is the founding editor of Minor Notes, a Penguin Classics book series dedicated to minor poets within the black expressive tradition. He lives in Massachusetts with his family.
THEME: POETRY WORKSHOP & READING
HOST: The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College
FEATURES: Joshua Bennett
PRICE: $20 Registration Fee / https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/t/6723e9ef0c2eac3e30935bfe/1730406895140/24-25DPSworkshop-registration.pdf
CONTACT: FB - The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College / 973-684-6555 / mgillan@pccc.edu
