Gallery
A selection of photos of events at the Poetry Center at PCCC in Paterson, New Jersey featuring poets at readings and events held there.
Billy Collins
Billy Collins with Maria Gillan after his writing workshop and Paterson Poetry Prize reading in 2015.
Maria Gillan with Stanley Kunitz
Maria Gillan with Stanley Kunitz
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka at a Poetry Center event.
Mark Doty and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Mark Doty and Aimee Nezhukumatathil at a reading in 2012 following writing workshops that they led.
Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith
2013 Paterson Poetry Prize reading - April 5, 2014
From left (finalists) Joseph Millar, Aaron Smith, and Melinda Palacio, Maria Gillan and (winner) Richard Blanco.
2016 Allen Ginsberg winners and finalists at the February 4, 2017 reading and awards ceremony
Major Jackson and Jan Beatty with founder/executive director of the Poetry Center, Maria Mazziotti Gillan
May 6, 2017
Richard Blanco, the 2013 Inaugural Poet
at the Poetry Center on March 4, 2017
Marie Howe
Marie Howe at the Distinguished Poets Reading for March 2017
Mark Doty, winner of the 2016 Paterson Poetry Prize
April 1, 2017
2016 Paterson Poetry Prize Reading
2016 Paterson Poetry Prize winner, Mark Doty (2nd from left) and finalists, Adele Kenny, Vivian Shipley, Patricia Spears Jones, and Richard Michelson, with founder/ executive director of the Poetry Center, Maria Mazziotti Gillan (center) at a reading and awards ceremony held on April 1, 2017.
Patricia Smith reading
"Celebrating the Poetic Legacy of Whitman, Williams and Ginsberg" - a free conference and festival - June 3, 2017
Li-Young Lee, Maria Gillan, Patricia Smith
June 3, 2017 - literary festival held at the Poetry Center
Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee reads to a standing-room-only crowd at the June 2017 literary festival, held by the Poetry Center at PCCC in the Hamilton Club building.
Patricia Smith
Award-winning poet, Patricia Smith, performs her electric poetry at PCCC’s Hamilton Club, home of the Poetry Center. Smith was a featured reader at the June 2017, at a literary festival that celebrated the poetic legacy of Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and Allen Ginsberg.
An American Studies Curriculum in an Italian University Panel
Sabrina Vellucci, Elisabetta Marino and Maria Anita Stefanelli, all of the Universita di Roma, Italy conducted a panel at the Poetry Center’s 2017 literary festival at PCCC.
Li-Young Lee poetry workshop
2017
Li-Young Lee reading at the 2017 Conference
Patricia Smith poetry workshop
2017
2017 Conference session
Participants sign-in for the Conference and Festival at the Hamilton Club
June 3, 2017
Conference session
Conference session
Allen Ginsberg Award Winners 2017 at Annual Reading
February 2018
Daniel Donaghy - March 2018
reg e gaines - March 2018
Paterson Poetry Prize Reading
April 14, 2018 - Winner, Kim Addonizio, and Finalists of the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize along with Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Kim Addonizio
April 14, 2018 reading by the Winner and Finalists of the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize.
Winner: Kim Addonizio, Mortal Trash (W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY)
Kevin Carey
April 14, 2018 Reading by Finalists of the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize
Kevin Carey, Jesus Was a Homeboy (CavanKerry Press, Fort Lee, NJ)
Dante Di Stefano
April 14, 2018 Reading by Finalists of the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize
Dante Di Stefano, Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight (Brighthorse Books, Omaha, NE);
Colleen J. McElroy
April 14, 2018 Reading by Finalists of the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize
Colleen J. McElroy, Blood Memory (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA);
Gary Fincke
April 14, 2018 Reading by Finalists of the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize
Gary Fincke, Bringing Back the Bones: New and Selected Poems (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, Nacogdoches, TX);
M. L. Liebler
April 14, 2018 Reading by Finalists of the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize
M. L. Liebler, I Want to Be Once (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI)
