The Brooklyn
Public Library’s Italian heritage author series closes on Dec.
17 at 6 pm with a reading by poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan at the
Central Library at Grand Army Plaza.
Gillan has published several collections of her poetry including
"Things My Mother Told Me" (Guernica Editions, 1999).
She has also edited several anthologies with her daughter, Jennifer
Gillan, including "Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary
Prose About Learning to be American" (Penguin/Putnam, 1999).
The library reading is free. For more information, visit www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org
on the Web or call (718) 230-2100.
