Maria Gillan on The Writers Almanac

December 27, 2015

Today, Garrison Keillor read Maria Gillan's poem, "My Daughter at 14: Christmas Dance" as the featured poem on his program, The Writer’s Almanac You can read the poem and hear Keillor's reading.

This is Maria's third appearance on the program. Earlier, Keillor had chosen her poems "Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know" and "Driving into Our New Lives".

Maria's Official Site is at MariaGillan.com. Her latest publication is the poetry and art collection, The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets.

About Maria Gillan

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs), the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book, All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions).

She is the founder and executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and editor of the Paterson Literary Review. She is also director of the Binghamton Center for Writers and the creative writing program, and professor of poetry at Binghamton University-SUNY.

Maria has published 22 books of and about poetry, and 4 anthologies. Her most recent books are the poetry and photography collaboration with Mark Hillringhouse, Paterson Light and Shadow (Serving House Books, 2017) and the poetry collection, What Blooms in Winter (NYQ, 2016). Her collection of poems along with some of her paintings is The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets (Redux Consortium). Other recent publications are Ancestors' Song (Bordighera Press) and Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories (MiroLand, Guernica). With her daughter Jennifer, she is co-editor of four anthologies.

Maria Mazziotti Gillan - poet & artist

Maria's Artist website

December 27, 2015

Maria Gillan on The Writers Almanac

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