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Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College has received a
"Citation of Excellence" from the New Jersey State Council on
the Arts in 2000, as well as being named a "Distinguished Arts
Project" twice in the past by the Council. The Poetry
Center was also twice selected a recipient of the Governor's
Invitational Tennis Tournament grants, totaling $20,000. Programming
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| Distinguished Poets Series The Poetry Center features poets of national and international reputation. Our audience mingles people from our community with writers, editors, and poetry lovers from the region, and offers an opportunity for a democratic interchange of ideas. Through the open readings we give poets in our audience the opportunity to be heard by very well known poets and magazine editors. A number of writers have had the opportunity to be heard by an editor who accepted their work on the basis of hearing them in the open reading part of our programs. Participating Poets The Paterson Literary Review
New Jersey Poetry Calendar New Jersey Poetry Resource Book |
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The POETRY CENTER Library The POETRY CENTER library now contains more than 10,000 volumes of poetry, and a full collection of poetry reference books. The poetry books are available on inter-library loan and many people visit the library in person. The library helps to promote access to poetry books which normally have very small print runs and to make those books available to the community. The library is building a collection of poetry books in Spanish as well as English. POETRY WORKS/USA: A series of videocassettes based on our poetry reading series and interviews with the featured poets, aired several times a month on CableVision of Paterson and other cable TV stations in the state Anthologies The Poetry Center publishes yearly anthologies of the work of children, who are winners of the Poetry Contest for Paterson Schools. Conferences The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College also convenes topical conferences related to poetry writing: Paterson- The Poem and the City: William Carlos Williams and the Poetry of Urban Experience. This conference with two weeks of events opened with a reading by C.K. Williams and closed with a reading by Gwendolyn Brooks. The conference focused on a panel discussion and readings by Allen Ginsberg, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Sonia Sanchez, Robert Creeley, Paul Mariani, Amiri Baraka, Haki Madhubuti and Fay Chiang. The program focused attention on poetry and the connection that poetry has to the people and the life of the city. Unsettling America: Race and |
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