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Mary Mackey, author
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Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.

https://marymackey.com/
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“Mackey’s poem “The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 2: White Birches is one of the most magnificent poems ever written, and one of the most beautiful poems in English.”

-Hillary Frasier Hayes

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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
My Own Private Jaguars: Craft and Inspiration

Over the years, I’ve written poetry, novels, screenplays, nonfiction essays, literary criticism, and memoir. My two favorites are poetry and novels. I’ve never been able to choose between them.

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#poetry
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
For researchers and enthusiasts alike, the exhibition provides a valuable opportunity to explore human history in the Arabian Peninsula from the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages to the centuries preceding Islam.

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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“The first chapter alone is amazing and worth the price of the book. Writers and students of creative writing will instantly see that this book is a powerful model of prose that is alluring, engaging, and grippingly alive.”

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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetrySky
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“I am less interested in discovering an explanation for why these things happen to me than in the result, for starting at a very young age, fever gave me priceless poetic gifts: metaphor, because it showed me how one thing could easily become another;”

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#PoetrySky
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
6,000-Year-Old Chewing Gum Reveals Clues on Neolithic Gender Roles

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3kke6cz6

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“Mackey’s poem “The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 2: White Birches is one of the most magnificent poems ever written, and one of the most beautiful poems in English.”

-Hillary Frasier Hayes

https://loom.ly/d0VuKgc

#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland

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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“I had a hard time putting this book down to sleep. Incredible writing, well-developed characters and storyline. A must-read for pre-historic fiction fanatics!”

https://loom.ly/hZ_RW7U

#HistoricalFiction #FantasyFiction #ReadingCommunity
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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“Escape from The Fat Farm is a brilliant, surreal, darkly funny book that stuck in my memory like literary crazy glue long after I put it down."

- Jean Taylor

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#EscapeFromTheFatFarm #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Reposted by Mary Mackey, author
The U.K. is studded with megalithic formations dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze ages. Many are finding in them a portal to the sacred. religionnews.com/2025/11/21/h...
How the UK's ancient stones are drawing renewed awareness of the sacred
PENZANCE, England (RNS) — The United Kingdom is studded with megalithic formations dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze ages. Many are finding in them a portal to the sacred.
religionnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Karahantepe project probes Neolithic eating habits

https://tinyurl.com/yc8n54yv

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Mackey's crisp-edged perceptions are set down with a sensuous, compassionate, and utterly unflinching eye."

-Jane Hirshfield

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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Some kind of WONDERFUL is happening tonight, Nov. 20, in Berkeley! Poetry Flash is hosting a reading by poets Camille Norton and Rosa Lane: 7 pm at the Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue. Come listen to these wild women get their poems on! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #PoetryFlash
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
KALW Angie Coiro Interviews Mary Mackey

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#ClimateChange #InThisBurningWorld
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The Cradle of Zeus: Mount Ida and the Birth of Greek Mythology

https://tinyurl.com/yc6749zk

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“I loved how the characters' stories overlap and connect, and how time moves in a mosaic-like way. The book is brief, but satisfying.”

-Amazon review

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#fiction #immersion
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Excavations are underway at Qeshlaq Tappaci with the goal to compile the cultural characteristics of the #Neolithic era in the NW Iranian region, as well as to present the time period of these cultures within the framework of Iranian arch. chronology. https://tinyurl.com/5ybhr4sh
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”

― John Holmes
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"A researcher's precision combined with storytelling magic."

-Marija Gimbutas, author of The Civilization of the Goddess

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#HistoricalFiction
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reposted by Mary Mackey, author
What is fascinating about these stones erected by Neolithic men around 6,000 years ago is that they will still be there, standing, when humanity has disappeared.
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by Mary Mackey, author
The students at Da Vinci Junior High in Davis have done it again: They've put together a third chapbook of ecopoetry—TO THE HUMAN RACE—in which they share not only their profound concern for the fate of our planet but also their abiding hope & love. Come hear them read on Thursday, Dec. 4, 7 pm at
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"For an infinite period, I rest outside of time. There are colors, forms, sounds, smells, but they sweep through me undifferentiated and unrecorded. Every moment is new. Nothing makes sense, but this does not bother me, because I have no expectation that it should."
Mary Mackey

November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM