{"id":788,"date":"2012-12-03T15:21:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/?p=788"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:21:50","slug":"gift-of-recent-american-poetry-from-maria-mazziotti-gillan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2012\/12\/gift-of-recent-american-poetry-from-maria-mazziotti-gillan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift of Recent American Poetry from Maria Mazziotti Gillan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poet and Seton Hall alumna, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, has donated to the University Libraries over 300 volumes of\u00a0recent American poetry, short stories and fiction, inncluding works by David Slavitt, Andrew Hudgins, and Maxine Kumin. Most of these books can be found in the PS (American Literature) section of the library.\u00a0\u00a0Gillan, who was born in Paterson, New Jersey, is the Founder \/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and editor of the <em>Paterson Literary Review.<\/em> She is also Director of the Creative Writing Program and Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University.\u00a0 She has published fourteen books of poetry, including <em>The Weather of Old Seasons <\/em>(Cross-Cultural Communications), <em>Where I Come From, Things My Mother<\/em> <em>Told Me, <\/em>and <em>Italian Women in Black Dresses (Guernica Editions).<\/em> With her daughter, Jennifer, she is co-editor of four anthologies: <em>Unsettling America<\/em>, <em>Identity Lessons<\/em>, and <em>Growing Up Ethnic in America<\/em> (Penguin\/Putnam) and <em>Italian-American Writers on New<\/em> <em>Jersey<\/em> (Rutgers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet and Seton Hall alumna, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, has donated to the University Libraries over 300 volumes of\u00a0recent American poetry, short stories and fiction, inncluding works by David Slavitt, Andrew Hudgins, and Maxine Kumin. Most of these books can be found in the PS (American Literature) section of the library.\u00a0\u00a0Gillan, who was born in Paterson, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2012\/12\/gift-of-recent-american-poetry-from-maria-mazziotti-gillan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gift of Recent American Poetry from Maria Mazziotti Gillan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}