Maria Mazziotti Gillan Poem Featured on Writer’s Almanac

The poem “My Mother Was a Brilliant Cook” was featured on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keiller for September 21, 2016. Each day on the program a poem is featured along with literary and historical notes from the day in history.

Hear Garrison Keiller read “My Mother Was a Brilliant Cook” [text of poem is included]

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the Director of the Creative Writing Program / The Binghamton Center for Writers, and a Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-State University of New York.

She has published 20 books, including The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets (Cat in the Sun Books, 2014); Ancestors’ Song (Bordighera Press, 2013); The Silence in an Empty House (NYQ Books, 2013); Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories (MiroLand, Guernica Editions, 2013); The Place I Call Home (NYQ Books, 2012); and What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009 (Guernica Editions, 2010). With her daughter Jennifer, she is co-editor of four anthologies.

Many of Gillan’s books and other materials about her are housed in the Faculty Archives and the Maria Mazziotti Gillan Archive located in Special Collections. Special Collections is located on the second floor of the Bartle Library [off of the North Reading Room].

Visit maria Mazziotti Gillan’s official site