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The Purpose TreeMaria Mazziotti GillanA talk with New Jersey poet, Italian American Maria Mazziotti Gillan.
2024-11-0644 min
The Italian American PodcastIAP 313: Silk City Sonnets: Maria Mazziotti Gillan on Italian American Verse and VitalityJoin us for a heartfelt journey through the intricate landscape of cultural identity and generational heritage as we sit down with the esteemed Italian American Poet, Artist, and Professor Maria Mazzotti-Gillan. Listen in as Professor Gillan shares her evocative poetry and personal stories at the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, painting a vivid picture of the Italian immigrant's struggle to assimilate into American society. Together, we unpack the complex emotions tied to our ancestors' sacrifices, the shame and pride of our immigrant roots, and the delicate balance of preserving tradition while embracing a new national identity. 2024-02-2456 min
Sleeping with HeatherEP 9: Thanksgiving Wishes and Pumpkin PiePoetry featured in tonights episode:
"The Partial Explanation" by Charles Simic
A poignant piece that delves into the mysteries of life, inviting listeners to ponder the unexplained and the partially understood aspects of our existence.
"Rural Delivery" by Charles Simic
Simic's evocative imagery captures the essence of rural life, bringing forth a sense of nostalgia and simplicity.
"But I, Too, Want to Be a Poet" by Fanny Howe
This poem is a reflective exploration of the desire to create and express through the medium of poetry.
"First Formal" by Sharon Olds
Olds's narrative poem weaves a tale of youthful...2023-11-2254 min
Lets TalkAmeerah Shabazz BilalAmeerah Shabazz-Bilal is an award winning poet - recipient of the Maria Mazziotti Gillan Literary Service Award 2021 from Newark, NJ. She has a unique talent for telling stories through poetry and Visual Arts. Ameerah is the founder/facilitator of - “When Women Speak” and “When People Speak” - poetry platforms for creative voices, support and empowerment. She is the Author/Illustrator of “Breathing Through Concrete'', a poetry anthology. Her works are featured in publications: “Every Kinda Lady and Her Sister Pages” ,“Philadelphia Says:Black Lives Matter”, “Womb of the Violet II”, “American Muslim Journal”, “Soup Can” Magazine Issue 2, Online published : “Life in Qurantine...2023-03-1444 min
The Poet and The PoemMaria Mazziotti GillanDirector of the N.J. Paterson Poetry Center, poet/painter/teacher.2022-03-2134 min
Planet Poet - Words in SpaceMaria Mazziotti Gillan, When the Stars Were Still VisiblePlanet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my January 18th, 2022 WIOX show featuring Maria Mazziotti Gillan, poet, teacher, artist and visionary founder of the renowned Poetry Center at the Passaic Community College in Patterson, N.J., on her new book, When the Stars Were Still Visible. Planet Poet’s erudite and endlessly interesting Poet-At-Large Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us with her musings on poetry, art and life. On When the Stars Were Still Visible “… It is as if this book rose out of an alchemist’s compound compr...2022-02-0851 min
Rattle Poetryep. 105 - Maria Mazziotti GillanMaria 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. Maria Gillan is Bartle Professor and Professor Emerita of English and creative writing at Binghamton University-SUNY. She has published more than twenty books of and...2021-08-092h 12
The Story Talks BackRuth Lisa Schechter: Celebrating an extraordinary poet & mentorIn an all-new panel discussion, TSTB celebrates the life and work of Ruth Lisa Schechter -- poet, activist, editor, healer, and mentor. Raised in the Bronx during the Great Depression, Schechter discovered a passion for poetry and studied with the legendary Louise Bogan. Schechter admired the freewheeling verse of Ginsberg and the confessional poets -- but she was also meticulous about craft and precise language. This emotional and revealing appreciation features world-renowned poet and visual artist Maria Mazziotti Gillan, award-winning poet and teacher Maureen Seaton, and Schechter's younger son, Bill. The session begins with an extensive account of Schechter's...2021-02-2157 minThe Story Talks BackPreview: Maria Gillan tells about her life-changing first visit with poet Ruth Lisa SchechterToday, Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a world-renowned poet, editor, and visual artist; but when she met the late poet Ruth Lisa Schechter, she was a "typical Italian housewife" who was just beginning her journey as a writer. In this excerpt from our forthcoming TSTB tribute to Schechter -- a panel discussion with Gillan, poet Maureen Seaton, and Schechter's son Bill -- she describes her fateful first visit to Schechter's home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. #story #stories #storytelling #storytellers #poet #poetrylovers #writers #mentors #creativewriting #creativewriters #NewYorkwriters #NewYorkpoets #PatersonReview #MariaGillan #MaureenSeaton #RuthLisaSchechter #CrotonReview #CrotonNY #CrotononHudson #Patersonpoets
2021-02-2002 min
Annie's Story CaveNerinaOne of the most profound days of my life was up a mountain in Sicilia. Eternal thanks to Stefania Taviano for taking me around her homeland, and to her ancestral land, of olive trees growing on steep slopes."Nerina” by Annie Lanzillotto, was awarded an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award Honorable Mention sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. Published in Paterson Literary Review #49, Editor Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Paterson, New Jersey, 2021.This series is a Street Cry Inc production.Executive Producers of this series are:&nb...2021-01-1005 min
Journey Daily with a Compelling PoemWhat I Can't Tell My SonAs children grow up and move away, the change can be painful. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is winner of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP, 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. She is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, editor of the Paterson Literary Review, and director of the creative writing program/professor of English at Binghamton University-SUNY. She has published 23 books, including What Blooms in Winter (NYQ B...2020-03-0306 minJourney Daily with a Compelling PoemGoing to the World's Fair, 1964Enjoy time on the Midway since life is unpredictable. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is winner of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP, 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. She is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, editor of the Paterson Literary Review, and director of the creative writing program/professor of English at Binghamton University-SUNY. She has published 23 books, including What Blooms in Winter (NYQ Books, 2016) and Paterson Li...2020-02-2607 min
Poetry Spoken Here2019: The Poetry Spoken Here RetrospectiveIn 2019 Poetry Spoken Here celebrated our 100th episode, became the audio home of the Unamuno Author Festival (which included traveling to Spain to record poetry), and had tens of thousands of downloads from over 50 countries.
Jericho Brown (PSH 100)https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-100-jericho-brown-reading-at-the-unamuno-author-festival
Maren (Lovey) Wright Kerr (PSH 085) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-085-maren-lovey-wright-kerr-and-lynne-sharon-schwartz-reviewed
Jimmy Santiago Baca (PSH 104) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-104-jimmy-santiago-baca
Joseph Grantham (PSH 089) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-089-joseph-grantham-and-stephen-crane
Catherine Pikula (PSH 091) https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/psh-091-catherine-pikula-and-poemcity-project
Bill Porter aka Red Pine (pt. 1 - PSH 105)https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-105-red-pine-pt-1-stonehouse
Bill Porter...2020-01-1128 min
Poetry Spoken HereEpisode #108 Maria Mazziotti Gillan and David Graham ReviewedMaria Mazziotti Gillan reads poems about family and loss. She also discusses some of her many poetry outreach efforts in Paterson, NJ and beyond. In the second part of the show, host Charlie Rossiter reviews David Graham's (PSH guest on episode 56)new book, "The Honey of Earth."
Find "The Honey of Earth" here: https://www.terrapinbooks.com/newmdashthe-honey-of-earth-by-david-graham.html
Hear David's episode of PSH, here: https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-056-david-graham-and-the-2016-vida-count
Hear Maria talk explicitly about the family connections in her work in our Thanksgiving episode from 2016 "The Poetry of Family and Home": https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-011-the-poetry-of-family-and-home-special-episode
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Wanda JeffersonReal Talk Special Day 3-HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY MONTHWelcome Everyone to the third Real Talk Special for National Poetry Month. Enjoy !!! See you tomorrow for Day 4 !!! Fingersnaps !!!
Here are the links promised ( All rights of each poets poetry are to them directly):
www.poetry.org Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, and Shel Silverstein
www.poetryfoundation.org Nikki Giovanni, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe
www.mariagillan.com/poems.html Maria Mazziotti Gillan
https://laurabosspoet.owrdpress.com/poems/ Laura Boss
P.S. Its live and uncut plus there is some real talk mixed in as well. "Remember forgive and forget but let the memories teach you...2019-04-2834 min
Poetry from Studio 47Poetry from Studio 47 - Episode 10 - Maria Mazziotti GillanWinner of the American Book Award and Director of The Poetry Center in Paterson, New Jersey2019-03-1804 min
Download Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer GillanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343380to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American
Author: Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan
Narrator: Donald Lopez, Carrie Hight, Pamela D'pella, Sumeet Bharati, Connie Mustang, Andre Montgomery, Hayden Lee, Allyson Johnson, Vanessa Hart, Roxanne Hernandez, Gabrielle De Cuir, Richard Brewer, Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Release date: December 18, 2018
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Stories navigating the commplicated terrain of race in America, from acclaimed writers like Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie, and Amy Tan The editors who brought us Unsettling A...2018-12-1812h 48Get Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalGrowing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American by Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti GillanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343380to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American
Author: Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Narrator: Donald Lopez, Carrie Hight, Pamela D'pella, Sumeet Bharati, Connie Mustang, Andre Montgomery, Hayden Lee, Allyson Johnson, Vanessa Hart, Roxanne Hernandez, Gabrielle De Cuir, Richard Brewer, Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Release date: December 18, 2018
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Stories navigating the commplicated terrain of race in America, from acclaimed writers like Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie, and Amy Tan The editors who brought us Unsettling A...2018-12-1812h 48
The Jersey Arts PodcastMaria Mazziotti Gillan at the Dodge Poetry FestivalThe Dodge Poetry Festival is the largest poetry event in North America. Paterson-based poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan will be reading on Thursday and Friday of the four-day festival taking place October 18-21 in Newark. Maria is the force behind the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, and the author of more than 20 books of and about poetry. Her poems are about her life, including her strong memories of childhood in Paterson’s Italian immigrant community. She likes to talk about the “cave,” that place of memories and feelings inside us all that the best poetry takes us back to. Producer...2018-09-2000 min
Jersey Arts PodcastMaria Mazziotti Gillan at the Dodge Poetry FestivalThe Dodge Poetry Festival is the largest poetry event in North America. Paterson-based poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan will be reading on Thursday and Friday of the four-day festival taking place October 18-21 in Newark. Maria is the force behind the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, and the author of more than 20 books of and about poetry. Her poems are about her life, including her strong memories of childhood in Paterson’s Italian immigrant community. She likes to talk about the “cave,” that place of memories and feelings inside us all that the best poetry takes us back to. Producer...2018-09-2015 min
Poetry Spoken HereEpisode #048 Juliet Cook and Paterson Light and Shadow ReviewedJuliet Cook from Ohio shares her poems, talks about her press, Blood Pudding Press, and how she re-learned language and continues to write poetry following a stroke. Host, Charlie Rossiter, reviews Paterson Light and Shadow, a collection of Poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and photographs by Mark Hillringhouse.
For more on Blood Pudding Press, go here: http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/
For more on Maria Gillan, go here: http://www.mariagillan.com/
For more on Mark Hillringhouse, go here: http://mhillringhouse.zenfolio.com/
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Poetry Spoken HereEpisode #013 Jacqueline Harris And Maria Mazziotti Gillan's Writing BookChicago performance poet, Jacqueline Nicole Harris discusses her inspirations, and reads examples of her passionate work. In the second part of the show, Maria Mazziotti Gillan talks about her book, "Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories" full of advice and wisdom to help writers unlock their creative potential. We also offer a quick remembrance of Frank Sinatra's album of tone poems originally released in 1956.
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KPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – September 15, 2004Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Italian Women in Black Dresses. Jack Foley hosts.
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2004-09-1504 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – September 8, 2004Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Italian Women in Black Dresses. The founder and director of the Passaic County Community College Poetry Center and its cultural affairs department, whose poetry is inspired by her family and ethnic background, talks with host Jack Foley.
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2004-09-0804 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – May 26, 2004 Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Italian Women in Black Dresses. Jack Foley hosts.
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2004-05-2604 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyCover to Cover with Jack Foley – May 19, 2004Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Italian Women in Black
Dresses.
Jack Foley hosts.
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2004-05-1904 min