{"id":3123,"date":"2016-06-06T15:59:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2016-06-06T15:59:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:59:40","slug":"good-poems-for-hard-times-is-the-featured-book-for-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2016\/06\/06\/good-poems-for-hard-times-is-the-featured-book-for-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Poems for Hard Times is the Featured Book for June"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The poems in this volume were chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio’s\u00a0The Writer’s Almanac. <\/em>Here, readers will find comfort in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as “Such As It Is More or Less” and “Let It Spill.” From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Jennifer Michael Hecht.<\/p>\n

Keiller is a much beloved American author,\u00a0storyteller,\u00a0humorist,\u00a0radio actor, and radio personality. He is known as host of the\u00a0Minnesota Public Radio\u00a0show\u00a0A Prairie Home Companion<\/i>. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town\u00a0Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including\u00a0Lake Wobegon Days<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories<\/i>. Other creations include\u00a0Guy Noir, whom Keillor voices, a detective who appears in\u00a0A Prairie Home Companion<\/i>\u00a0comic skits.<\/p>\n

This book is part of the Maria Mazzioti Gillan Collection. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an accomplished author herself and 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\u00a0Poets & Writers<\/em>\u00a0and the 2008 American Book Award for her book,\u00a0All That Lies Between Us\u00a0<\/em>(Guernica Editions).<\/p>\n

She is director of the Binghamton Center for Writers and the creative writing program, and professor of poetry at Binghamton University-SUNY. She is also the founder\/executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and editor of the\u00a0Paterson Literary Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

She has published 20 books, including:\u00a0What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009<\/em>\u00a0(Guernica Editions, 2010) and Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories<\/em>\u00a0(MiroLand, Guernica, 2013). \u00a0In fact, there is a poem by Ms. Gillan included in this volume entitled “After School on Ordinary Days.”<\/p>\n

To learn more about Maria Mazziotti Gillan, visit her website at\u00a0www.mariagillan.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, if you are having “one of those days,”\u00a0the poems gathered in this collection may offer you solace and provide you with the healing power of good poetry.<\/p>\n

This book can be found in Special Collections on the second floor of the Bartle Library [just off of the North Reading Room].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The poems in this volume were chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio’s\u00a0The Writer’s Almanac. Here, readers will find comfort in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as “Such As It Is More or Less” and “Let It Spill.” From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-alumni","7":"category-books","8":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","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=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}