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Mary Gilliland

@newsthatstays.bsky.social

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Poet. nature culture. woodland gardens. chöd practice. https://marygilliland.com/ http://AmericaIsHardERToFind.wordpress.com #MakeArtNotWar #InArtWeTrust In the Pool of the Sea’s Shoulder, Ember Days, The Devil’s Fools, The Ruined Walled Castle Garden

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today is pub day! My new poetry collection Red Tide at Sandy Bend is available for purchase from The Bodily Press sb0111-qr.myshopify.com/products/mar...

Mary Gilliland: Red Tide at Sandy Bend

Paperback : 9798998892158 48 pages, September, 2025 Trim size: 7.44" x 9.68" Barnacles sparkle, puffins glint, human practices result in fish-strewn beaches. Like blue-green algae on lakes and ponds, ...

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 5d

Hear ye! Hear ye excerpts from In the Pool of the Sea's Shoulder and Red Tide at Sandy Bend along with an informal Q&A and signing. #poetry #books 5:30pm Wednesday 10/8/2025 at the new indie #bookshop in Dryden NY
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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 5d

long life and happiness!

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks much for this. Brilliant.

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 6d

exhilarating!

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 6d

hey you! i hope i’ll get your way again soon

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 6d

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 6d

I hope everyone had a very happy #NationalPoetryDay #nationalpoetryday2025 !! Look for my Within the Shop of the Divine, forthcoming this month from Arc Publications
@Arc_Poetry

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 17d

oh my, it’s Emily Dickinson with you too today. yes, it’s the music, sometimes nothing but.

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 17d

Calling all ears! to the vicinity of Emily Dickinson’s house. "Red Tide at Sandy Bend" will launch at Amherst Books on Thursday, September 25th at 7:00 PM. I’ll be reading alongside master poets Kirun Kapur and Kristin Dykstra. Read about my books and life at marygilliland.com

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 17d

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you soooo for your books show! criminal that Brit TV hasn’t more. but that lets you shine.

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 17d

the part that is the author, rather than the writer, has been really taxing me lately. Thank you! you go girl!

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 18d

A shout out to @nimrodjournal.bsky.social for first publishing work that's now in my new #poetry collection Red Tide at Sandy Bend sb0111-qr.myshopify.com/products/mar... Thank you editors and readers! #newbook

Mary Gilliland: Red Tide at Sandy Bend

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 19d

Check out my new website! marygilliland.com
Collections of #poetry & much whimsy!
Designer= talented family member @gillawatts.
I’m pleased to unveil #beauty on World #Peace Day, new moon, eve of #autumn equinox, and feast of #Saint Matthew the Evangelist
#MakeArtNotWar marygilliland.com

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 19d

sweet!

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 19d

such a gorgeous place to be reading from your collection! I feel lovely just being reminded of that garden. here’s a bouquet for you from one in my Finger Lakes region.

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 21d

Ah, the scent and quick of autumn approaching!
#flowersonfriday #SmallBeautiesHour #bloomscrolling
#gardening #FlowerReport #Flowers🌱 #Photography
May you be safe, may you be healthy, may #poems find you, may you be alive in #peace!

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 28d

one of the first whose name I learned! (way back, when I was my own ancestor)

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · 28d

Poets for Science!
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I contributed 4 poems that cover hands to honey, marshes to insects, dinosaurs to healthful herbs—

You searched for Mary Gilliland - The Nature of Our Times

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · Sep 10

Evoe! to the birthday of the greatest lyric-epic pathfinder forebear #poet H.D.

“…how could I imagine
the Lady herself would come instead?”

—from the #book ‘Trilogy’

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you for this, Maryann

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · Sep 10

“And sometimes for a moment,
you feel it beginning—the sense
of escape sharp as a knife-blade
hangs over the dark field
of your body…”
— ‘Twelve Moons’ — late great #poet Mary Oliver
It’s her birthday!
Oliver read from this book, Ithaca NY before winning Pulitzer Prize, to an audience of 5 people.

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · Sep 10

I’m a US poet with my first UK collection forthcoming shortly. Got the shivers…!

Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tariffs on poetry...

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Tariffs on poetry

I might have expected the wine trade to be affected by tariffs (and it certainly has been), but I didn't bargain for its impact on my poetry...

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Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · Sep 10

Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social · Sep 9

Cath, hope ’twas wonderful. what is this beautiful place?