Fanwood Poetry Series Features Free Readings

From The Carriage House:

The Carriage House Poetry Series in Fanwood invites the public to enjoy an evening of poetry readings by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Joe Weil on Tuesday, September 20. The free poetry performances will begin promptly at 8:00 p.m. in the Patricia Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood Borough Hall (GPS use 75 N. Martine Avenue, Fanwood NJ).

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, and editor of The Paterson Literary Review. She also is the Director of the Creative Writing Program and Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University (SUNY). Maria is a recipient of the 2008 American Book Award for her book, “All That Lies Between Us.” She has published 20 books, including “Ancestors’ Song,” “Writing Poetry to Save Your Life,” and the bi-lingual (English and Italian) poetry collection, “In a Place of Flowers and Light.”

Joe Weil is an assistant professor at Binghamton University who teaches poetry and fiction at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He is a noted performer of poetry and music and has been featured on PBS’ Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers, in the New York Times, and at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the Detroit Opera House, Poets’ House, and at Geraldine R. Dodge poetry festivals. Since 2008, Joe has published four volumes of poems, including “Painting the Christmas Trees,” “The Plumber’s Apprentice,” and “The Great Grandmother Light: New and Selected Poems.”

The Carriage House Poetry Series is currently in its eighteenth year at the Kuran Arts Center, an historic Gothic Revival structure that was once a 19th century carriage house, hence the name of the series. The Sept. 20th reading is free and open to the public. An open mic reading with local poets will follow the featured performance.

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