{"id":2332,"date":"2014-09-17T14:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2014-09-17T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T14:46:32","slug":"writing-poetry-to-save-your-life-an-interview-with-maria-mazziotti-gillan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2014\/09\/17\/writing-poetry-to-save-your-life-an-interview-with-maria-mazziotti-gillan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: An Interview with Maria Mazziotti Gillan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/10\/Maria_Gillan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1494 alignleft\" alt=\"Maria_Gillan\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/10\/Maria_Gillan.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a>Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP, the 2011 Barnes &amp; Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets &amp; Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book,\u00a0<em>All That Lies Between Us<\/em>\u00a0(Guernica Editions). She is the founder \/executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and editor of the\u00a0<em>Paterson Literary Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>She is also director of the Binghamton Center for Writers and the creative writing program, and professor of English at Binghamton University-SUNY. She has published 20 books, including\u00a0<em>The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets<\/em>\u00a0(Cat in the Sun Books, 2014);<em>\u00a0Ancestors&#8217; Song<\/em>\u00a0(Bordighera Press, 2013);\u00a0<em>The Silence in an Empty House<\/em>\u00a0(NYQ Books, 2013);\u00a0<em>Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories<\/em>\u00a0(MiroLand, Guernica Editions, 2013);\u00a0<em>The Place I Call Home<\/em>\u00a0(NYQ Books, 2012); and\u00a0<em>What We Pass On: Collected Poems<\/em>\u00a01980-2009 (Guernica Editions, 2010). With her daughter Jennifer, she is co-editor of four anthologies.<\/p>\n<p>Read the interview in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/loren-kleinman\/writing-poetry-to-save-yo_b_5824876.html\"><em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP, the 2011 Barnes &amp; Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets &amp; Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book,\u00a0All That Lies Between Us\u00a0(Guernica Editions). She is the founder \/executive director of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-alumni","7":"category-faculty","8":"category-university-archives"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}