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Celebrate Women’s History Month

The Idiom Reading Series at SCCC presents two women writers during Women's History Month -- the exciting up and coming poet, Jessica de Koninck, and the much beloved Madeline Tiger. The reading will take place on Friday, March 26 from 7 to 9 pm in the Women’s Center.

Jessica de Koninck 's poems have both her fierce intellect and her deep compassion. Always an activist, she lost friends in 9/11, and witnessed the devastation all around only to have a deeper more personal devastation occur. Though her poems reflect these deep loses, there remains a resilience, a life force that will reshape itself and go on. Ms. de Koninck’s poems have appeared in The Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Bridges, Exit 13, Ruah, River King Literary Supplement, the Edison Literary Review, and others. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A former Councilwoman and resident of Montclair, New Jersey, she is a graduate of Brandeis University and Boston University School of Law. She recently lost her beloved husband, Paul, to kidney cancer. Their two children attend Brandeis. In addition to poetry, Ms. De Koninck is the Director of Legislative Services for the New Jersey Department of Education.

Madeleine Tiger, a well-established poet, has been celebrated by some of our finest writers. Toi Derricotte says "These are poems I want to carry around and read to friends at crisis moments in their lives... as beautiful as they are on paper, they are musical in the way old fashioned rhyming poems are: they go into you and stay..." Her poems reflect the richness of the life fully lived.” Ms. Tiger received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 1986. A poet, essayist, and teacher of writing, she has worked as a poet in the schools for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and for the NJ State Council on the Arts. She has published several books, Water Has No Color, My Father's Harmonica, and White Owl. And her most recent book is Birds of Sorrow and Joy. Additionally, her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies.

The evening of poetry is free and the public is invited to attend. Please call 973-300-2173 for more information.