#maria mazziotti gillan

[llovelymoonn]

maria mazziotti gillan ghost voices (via @weltenwellen) \\ kara jackson the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love \\ anna akhmatova 20th century russian poetry: silver and steel: "the sentence" (tr. stanley kunitz & max hayward)

buy me a chai latte

[ronk]

Some of the many poets who have read at the Poetry Center at PCCC in Paterson NJ available on their YouTube channel.

[nsantand]

Maria Mazziotti Gillan – Foi uma semana

"Foi uma semana", um poema de Maria Mazziotti Gillan

“Foi uma semana … de olhar para cima, para dentro, abaixo da superfície e para o passado.”—New York Times, D3, May 5, 2013 Este ano foi assim para mim, você, morto já há três anos e transposto para aquele outro lugar onde eu não possotoca-lo, e que deixei para trás olhando para cima, para aquele lugaronde eu imaginava que fosse o céu e onde espero que você possa sentirminha falta. A NASA…

[violettesiren]

I have learned the litany of my life, the pattern of repetitions orders and imprisons.

I have learned more than I ever wanted to know, dream back into innocence, life clean of regret and the sky not darkened

yet today reels me in and what remains, a crumb on a platter a snow— covered roof pale winter light is cause for celebration.

Even my bitter mouth cannot ask for more than this my heart beating in its cage my hands unclenching.

Winter Light by Maria Mazziotti Gillan

[blocky-tides]

YOUR GOD HAS NOT ABANDONED YOU. HE IS YOU. YOU HAVE BECAME HIM. BLOOD COATS YOUR HANDS AND TONGUE— YOUR BLADE DRIPS WITH ICHOR. YOU HAVE NOT CHANGED. RISE.

happy birthday king i miss you o7

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[jockpoetry]

all of us strangers x ghost voices by maria mazziotti gillan

All we can hope is that our own voices will remain inside those who loved us and comfort them for as long as they need to hear us.

[finishinglinepress]

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Snow On Bare Dirt by Karen Lee Ramos

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Karen Lee Ramos is the host of #POETRY at the BARN, a virtual and live reading series and writing program sponsored by Ringwood Manor Arts, located in the historic Barn Gallery of New Jersey’s Ringwood State Park. Her work has appeared in various publications such as Paterson Literary Review, Exit 13 Magazine and The Stillwater Review. Karen can be contacted through her website, KarenLeeRamos.com

PRAISE FOR Snow On Bare Dirt by Karen Lee Ramos

In these poems, Karen Ramos doesn’t flinch or turn away from who and where she has been. Neither does she underestimate her “now” in the process of becoming. These poems are written with narrative proficiency in a style that is intensely focused, compact, and direct. Ramos is uncompromisingly honest in telling her story as she “speaks” to the human spirit’s ability to straddle shadows with persistence, acceptance, and resilience. She acknowledges that even in “a small harvest” there is “bounty enough,” and she steps out of her personal “galaxy of bruised stars” to remind her readers of the Buddha’s teaching: “Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.” This is a brilliant debut collection of “well-spoken words.”

–Adele Kenny, Poetry Editor, Tiferet

Snow on Bare Dirt by Karen Lee Ramos is an exquisite chapbook of honest and insightful poems. Ramos is a brave poet who overcomes major obstacles in her life but who does not falter. These are clear-eyed poems that make us believe in the poet’s survival and our own. I guarantee that you will love this book.

–Maria Mazziotti Gillan, winner, American Book Award

Karen Lee Ramos takes us on a journey through youthful follies and ambitions to the fulfillment of motherhood. In poignant understatement, she recounts finding “unexpected mercies” around her and shares her deep connection to the natural world—an apple tree, the “patterns of wind and water and light.” Despite life-changing illness, what comes through is affirmation—of love, of family, of life under “a new galaxy of bruised stars.” These are poems to be read and reread.

–Elaine Koplow, Associate Editor, The Stillwater Review

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[harrypotterhousequotes]

SLYTHERIN:

"That night, I dream of a billboard. The message in the large orange letters, reads “Save Yourself.” In the morning, patient as a spider, I begin." 

–Maria Mazziotti Gillan (Coda for Salvation)

[calexanderpoetry]

20 Books, Blogs, and Podcast Episodes About Creativity That Will Help You Publish Your First Book This Year

20 Books, Blogs, and Podcast Episodes About Creativity That Will Help You Publish Your First Book This Year

  Whether You Want To Self or Traditionally Publish These People Will Help You On Your Journey

I’m in the process of publishing my 2nd book this year. The first one, which was self-published is available for free download by signing up for my email newsletter. 

The second book, which is traditionally published through Finishing Line Press, will be available for pre-order soon, but since I’m…

[exceptindreams]

It’s Been A Week | Maria Mazziotti Gillan

″It’s Been A Week” Maria Mazziotti Gillan

… of looking upward, inward, below the surface and back in time.” —New York Times, D3, May 5, 2013

This year has been a year like that for me, you, already three years dead and crossed over to that other place where I cannot touch you, and I left behind looking upward to that place where I imagined heaven is and where I hope you can feel me missing you. NASA announces its plans to bring a piece of Mars back to earth. I’d like to imagine I could bring back some memento of you, though my friend tells me I have to let you go. I read about a 23-million-year-old insect of a previously unknown species found in Europe, so perfectly preserved in amber that each tiny digit of the 1.8-inch-long animal is clearly visible, all its soft tissue intact. Sitting in my recliner now, in our family room in the evenings, my legs elevated, my eyes fixed firmly on the TV screen, where I watch British mysteries, I suddenly have an image of myself preserved in amber, tears on my cheeks, the TV remote still solidly positioned in my hand. What would the scientists of the future make of me? This chubby woman alone in her silent house, half asleep in a chair that holds her like a huge brown hand. They would stare and stare, but how could they know all the grief and longing that pulsed below the surface of her skin and in the chambers of her heart?

[mortalpractice]

So much in our lives is like that, we love and love and love an object and then one day it disappears, and we don't notice as though there were a canyon in the middle of the world where all those lost loves go. It is like that with people too. So now, when I hear your voice on the phone, that trembling, rasping it has become or when you tell me you fell four times today and describe each place where you fell and why or when you fumble for words to explain some simple fact, I know you, too, are going to vanish from my life, the feel of your skin under my hand, the way your shaking hands reach for me, the same way I still remember the sweet smell of cedar lifting into the air, the smooth feel of that wooden box under my hand.

—Maria Mazziotti Gillan, from "The Cedar Keepsake Box," published in Rattle

[smallpressdistribution]

After the storm

great blue

abandoned angel.

Dawning of a new garden;

the ladder

what blooms in winter.

[ronk]

Some of the women in the paintings of Maria Mazziotti Gillan.

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an artist, poet and professor. She is best known aa a poet and as the Founder and Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and as the editor of the Paterson Literary Review.

She has published 22 books of and about poetry and four literature anthologies. and is a Bartle Professor and Professor Emerita of English and creative writing and is the Director of the Creative Writing Program and Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-SUNY.

Her new artist website https://www.mariamazziottigillan.com/ features her watercolor paintings. 

Her poetry website is at http://mariagillan.com and her blog is at https://mariagillan.blogspot.com 

[weltenwellen]

Maria Mazziotti Gillan, from “Ghost Voices”

[blocky-tides]

i etch my face in stone, thousands of times over. i will remember my grave.

day 24: hermit-a-day may — zombiecleo

sylvia plath / maria mazziotti gillan / claudia rankine /

[desanctii]

Walt Whitman “Song Of The Open Road” / Julie Kagawa “The Eternity Curse” / Michelle Hodkin “The Evolution of Mara Dyer” / Ed Ruscha, 1989 / Gayle Forman “Just One Year” / Maria Mazziotti Gillan “Ghost Voices”