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Billy Collins Billy Collins with Maria Gillan after his writing workshop and Paterson Poetry Prize reading in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1433208298641-BXVZPDX1TK4Z5HGUHK6X/25+Stanley+Kunitz+Maria_Poetry+Center.jpg Gallery - Maria Gillan with Stanley Kunitz Maria Gillan with Stanley Kunitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496847533103-8EJ7YKCCRV9SQ274NOD1/Amiri+Baraka_Poetry+Center.+Amiri+Baraka_Poetry+Center-001.jpg Gallery - Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka at a Poetry Center event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496882785805-FPGVA145KTJ18KAQVVRA/doty-+nezhukumatathil2012.jpg Gallery - Mark Doty and Aimee Nezhukumatathil Mark Doty and Aimee Nezhukumatathil at a reading in 2012 following writing workshops that they led. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1435442073375-22Y7AHDHN30R4EXQKUFV/patriciasmith2012.jpg Gallery - Patricia Smith Patricia Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1465493272240-4VYB7J6ITIRKX7RPQZNA/image-asset.jpeg Gallery - 2013 Paterson Poetry Prize reading - April 5, 2014 From left (finalists) Joseph Millar, Aaron Smith, and Melinda Palacio, Maria Gillan and (winner) Richard Blanco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496377827557-V8JBDIT2R31PMP2JIYLN/AG+2017+group+photo.jpg Gallery - 2016 Allen Ginsberg winners and finalists at the February 4, 2017 reading and awards ceremony https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496882604106-6JM0LD9MUJ82MLOE5YF3/Beatty+and+Jackson+with+Maria+2017.jpg Gallery - Major Jackson and Jan Beatty with founder/executive director of the Poetry Center, Maria Mazziotti Gillan May 6, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496377983761-N82HH1TEICINMEVYOXO0/blanco+2017.jpg Gallery - Richard Blanco, the 2013 Inaugural Poet at the Poetry Center on March 4, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496883455676-1RUAIFN4DCN23M7F3HHK/Howe+2017.jpg Gallery - Marie Howe Marie Howe at the Distinguished Poets Reading for March 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496378048761-5E6IXHD2KYCUIFLMUKD5/Doty+2017+%286%29.jpg Gallery - Mark Doty, winner of the 2016 Paterson Poetry Prize April 1, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496881839667-VCERTK26I6E2R5PADNNE/PPP+group+2017.jpg Gallery - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496590077783-4YCYIJSP2TZJ7QDAJZID/festival1.JPG Gallery - Patricia Smith reading "Celebrating the Poetic Legacy of Whitman, Williams and Ginsberg" - a free conference and festival - June 3, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496881665910-YHOIERY3MGRPFPLVAXA2/LeeGillanSmith.jpg Gallery - Li-Young Lee, Maria Gillan, Patricia Smith June 3, 2017 - literary festival held at the Poetry Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496846727347-GB6QGIX2NFN2ZVPXDJEK/lee2.jpg Gallery - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496882178050-623SP5TGQ9G5PM7N6KVD/smith2.jpg Gallery - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1496846838924-XH0MFM27BRYOPO8IHNYD/panel.JPG Gallery - 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.       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1502909339388-RG08I4WCBIJ8ZGWN1I7Q/lee+workshop.jpg Gallery - Li-Young Lee poetry workshop 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1503260886788-GYBL053K6GVOO73IYXGZ/lee5.jpg Gallery - Li-Young Lee reading at the 2017 Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1502934125838-CFV9822QDV8R1BQCLMMO/smith+workshop.jpg Gallery - Patricia Smith poetry workshop 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1502934203215-NW98ONMZQ7WNMNKGXVPZ/conf+session.jpg Gallery - 2017 Conference session https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1503261111259-4PQFE3SZAZ0O5AYIRW5D/conf+signin.jpg Gallery - Participants sign-in for the Conference and Festival at the Hamilton Club June 3, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1527539535777-AGCSTBJDOCN5GK849DTX/session+italy+2.jpg Gallery - Conference session https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1527539513838-DCNV2XC27Z51Z593PBUI/session+italy.jpg Gallery - Conference session https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1521210753823-U4WH5LM8HFUJTLM1A55V/AGwinneres17readingFeb18.jpg Gallery - Allen Ginsberg Award Winners 2017 at Annual Reading February 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1527538645384-A4RUQ1C5SAI2LS8NNWFC/donaghy2.jpg Gallery - Daniel Donaghy - March 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1527538733915-55P0904ICIX0YFHSGP7Q/gaines3.jpg Gallery - reg e gaines - March 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1527539251212-RU3HSDA6ZPFAQMSERXKR/pppgroup2041418.jpg Gallery - Paterson Poetry Prize Reading April 14, 2018 - Winner, Kim Addonizio, and Finalists of the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize along with Maria Mazziotti Gillan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1527542235979-9RAC6EQ6IMNL3DM0ZS8L/addonizio3.JPG Gallery - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1527540955105-Q1H6X5FRQM1UAAN8T4XY/IMG_1499.JPG Gallery - 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1527540818074-IPKMD79NUG0B3Y2ZVR0G/IMG_1504.JPG Gallery - 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); https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d19a5de4b0084a3eb7cf41/1527538980480-9K4HE9AXVSRQTCR5E4TA/IMG_1498.JPG Gallery - Colleen J. McElroy April 14, 2018 Reading by Finalists of the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize Colleen J. 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