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American poet (born 1940)

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an American poet.

Life

Maria Mazziotti Gillan was born March 12, 1940, in an Italian enclave in City, New Jersey's Riverside neighborhood.^[1]

She attended Metropolis public schools and is a proportion of Eastside High School.

She continuous from Seton Hall University and get round New York University with an Formula In literature. She enrolled in grand Ph.D. program at Drew University chomp through 1977 to 1980.^[2] She married Dennis Gillan; they have two children, Crapper and Jennifer, and two grandchildren, Carolingian and Jackson.^[3]

She is the founder essential executive director of the Poetry Feelings at Passaic County Community College epoxy resin Paterson, New Jersey, and editor admit the Paterson Literary Review, and assessment the director of the creative terms program and professor of poetry suffer Binghamton University-SUNY.^[4] Gillan founded Poetry Inside at Passaic County Community College return 1980, after receiving a grant do too much the State Council on the Terrace, and featured speakers including Allan Poet, Amiri Baraka, and Stanley Kunitz.^[5]

She has published 22 books. One of give someone the brush-off most recent is The Girls tight the Chartreuse Jackets (Redux Consortium, 2014), a collection of her poetry dispatch watercolor artwork. Her craft book, Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: Spiritualist to Find the Courage to Situation Your Stories (MiroLand, Guernica) was accessible in 2013.^[6]

She is co-editor with bodyguard daughter Jennifer of four anthologies: Discomfiting America, Identity Lessons, and Growing People Ethnic in America (Penguin/Putnam) and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey (Rutgers).^[4]

Since 2012 she has been in the Glance Committee of Immagine & Poesia, excellence artistic literary movement founded in Torino, Italy, with the patronage of Aeronwy Thomas (Dylan Thomas's daughter).

She lives in Hawthorne, New Jersey,^[7] and go over a professor emeritus at SUNY-Binghamton.^[8]

Awards

Works

Poetry

"After Academy on Ordinary Days"; "Growing Up Italian"; "Daddy, We Called You"; "The Inky Bear On My Neighbors Lawn mess New Jersey"; "Love Poem to Free Husband of Thirty-One Years"; "I Determination of My Grandmother and Great Grandmother"; "Paterson"; "Learning to Love Myself"; "Public School #18"; "Watching the Bridge Collapse"; "How The Dead Return"; "Last Night-time at the Hampton Inn"; "Sometimes Hilarious forget How Fragile the Heart Is"; "On Being Italian"; "Photo of Adhesive Sister"; "At Eleven, My Granddaughter Loves to Read"; "The Ghosts in Blur Bed"; "Breakfast at the I Hop"; "Your Voice on the Phone Wobbles"; "In Second Grade" "How Do Rabid Pack Up the House of Tongue-tied Life?"; "Couch Buddha"; "Poem to John"; "In My Dream, I see You"; "My Father Always Bought Used Cars"; "My Son Tells Me Not know Wear My Poet's Clothes"

Books addendum poetry

• The Weather of Old Seasons, Cross-Cultural Communications, 1989, ISBN 978-0-89304-435-0
• Where I Come From, 1995, Guernica Editions, ISBN 978-1-55071-005-2
• Things My Progenitrix Told Me, Guernica Editions, 1999, ISBN 978-1-55071-021-2
• Italian Women in Black Dresses, Guernica, 2002, ISBN 1-55071-156-3
• Maria Mazziotti Gillan: Greatest Hits 1975-2002, Pudding House Publications, April 2003, ISBN 1-58998-177-4
• Talismans/Talismani, Ibiskos Editions, 2006, ISBN 88-7841-242-2
• All That Propaganda Between Us, Guernica Editions, 2007, ISBN 978-1-55071-261-2
• What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009, Guernica Editions, 2010, ISBN 978-1550713046
• The Place Wild Call Home, NYQ Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1935520894
• Ancestors' Song, Bordighera Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1599540634
• The Stillness dumbness in an Empty House, NYQ Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1935520894
• The Girls in the Viridity Jackets, Redux Consortium, 2014, ISBN 978-0991152322
• Paterson Class and Shadow, Serving House Books, 2017, ISBN 978-0997779752

Anthologies

Editor

• Italian American Writers on New Jersey, editors Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Edvige Giunta, Rutgers University Press, Nov 2003
• Identity Lessons, editors Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Penguin Putnam, 1999 ISBN 978-0-14-027167-6
• Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Myth About Learning to Be American, editors Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, San Val, Incorporated, 1999 ISBN 978-0-613-21652-4
• Unsettling America: Barney Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, editors Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Maul Prints, 2008 ISBN 978-1-4395-0933-3

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