Maria 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 about poetry, and has edited four anthologies. Her most recent book is When the Stars Were Still Visible (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2021)

Find more info and all of Maria's books here:

http://www.mariagillan.com/

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This Week's Prompt:

At the library.

Next Week's Prompt:

I love the way Joni Mitchell’s song “Circle Game” uses the image of a carousel to illustrate the passing of childhood. Choose a symbol we associate with childhood innocence--a teddy bear, a jump rope, etc.—and let your poem unfold from there.

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