Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an artist, poet and professor. 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 has been appointed a Bartle Professor and is a Professor Emerita in creative writing at Binghamton University-SUNY. She has published twenty-four books of poetry, including her latest book, When the Stars Were Visible (Stephen F. Austin University Press, April, 2021) and four anthologies. Other recent books are the poetry and photography collaboration with Mark Hillringhouse, Paterson Light and Shadow (Serving House Books, 2017) and the poetry collection, What Blooms in Winter (NYQ, 2016). A collection of her poems along with a selection of her paintings was published as The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets (Cat in the Sun Books, 2014). She is the 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). Maria Mazziotti Gillan has read her poems numerous times at universities, festivals, and poetry centers throughout the USA and in Italy, France, Yugoslavia, Finland, Wales, and Ireland.

Other poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan in Verse Daily:
January 12, 2017:   "Grief" "I have been grieving for a long time now...."
January 17, 2016:   "'It's Been a Week" "This year has been a year like that for me, you, already three..."
February 27, 2014:   "When We Were Engaged" "We go to Coney Island. You talk me into riding..."
December 18, 2013:   "The Strange House of the Past" "Moving through the strange house..."
February 17, 2007:   "Nighties" "...slippers with slender heels and feathers...."

Books by Maria Mazziotti Gillan:

Other poems on the web by Maria Mazziotti Gillan:
Two poems
Two poems
"It's Been a Week..."
"I Want to Write a Poem to Celebrate"

Maria Mazziotti Gillan's Website.