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Wow! Check out these reviews of Ember Days!
in LitHub’s Seven Unexpectedly Intimate Poetry Books to Read in March
by Rebecca Morgan Frank
“Gilliland waltzes smoothly between the cheeky and conversational and the lyrical … Across tightly-built lyrics, the poet establishes a levelheaded conversational ease that somehow makes room for celebration of the natural world, the inner world, and a sense of humor. Which is to say that Gilliland is full of surprises; the voice of these poems–whether set perched on a bar stool or while mowing down a cemetery–endures.” — Literary Hub
Is a Transcendently Beautiful Place Not to Be Ours? A Review of Ember Days (2024) by Mary Gilliland
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE on the best american poetry!!
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE on the best american poetry!!
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE on the Best American Poetry!!WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE on Best American Poetry!!
“Gilliland is a poet of witness and spirituality, grappling with climate devastation while also interrogating world policies and politics.” — Best American Poetry
“Throughout the collection, the inevitable progress of a particularly American history is palpable and its end near, but so is its ideal.” — Stand Magazine
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On Planet Poet-Words in Space, I discuss and read from both The Devil’s Fools and from Ember Days. And talk about life, the universe, living off-grid, teaching eco-systemic writing at Cornell, and the long road I traveled to book publication. Sharon Israel hosts this 1-hour podcast and she’s a vibrant conversationalist & probing questioneer. We recorded for WIOX in December 2023.
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Pre-order my new collection Ember Days!! Shipping on March 1, 2024. If you’d like a review copy, or if you’re teaching and might use the book in a course, please back channel me.
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The winter solstice radio interview out of Santa Fe, with bits from both The Devil’s Fools and Ember Days, has gone to podcast.
Carly Newfeld, host of ‘The Last Word,’ had my poetry bookend her broadcasting year: guest on her first show of 2023 and last before 2024 begins.
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Glowing reviews The Devil’s Fools has received:
by Marina Brown at Southern Literary Review
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Enjoy a 4-part gardening poet’s autumn blog 
posts on Best American Poetry. I’ve had such fun in prose, October 2022! (NB: this link shows the posts in reverse chronological order; start with the 4th & work your way up if you want to follow the prose renga)
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You too can carry out the FINAL ASSIGNMENT 
from those wondrous decades of teaching at Cornell!
thank you for the reprint, Whale Road Review!
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Prajnaparamita & Tara with vajra
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Peter Fortunato and I took an extended post-college apprenticeship with Gary Snyder in the Sierra Nevada foothills, studying carpentry, ecology, and the great Zen texts while living off-grid on San Juan Ridge and earning money in Bay Area construction during the winter. Gary performed our wedding ceremony.
Mary at Gary Snyder’s new barn, Kitkitdizze
Mary & Peter’s wedding invitation photo – at camp in the meadow below Gary Snyder house
Masa & Gen, Peter, Gary, Mary & Kai – KKD
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Programs funded by Poets & Writers, Inc help make our audiences possible.
poetry reading Ulysses Philomathic Library
writing workshop & poetry reading Trumansburg Conservator
Read the fruits of a lovely experience I had in late 2021 as Guest Poetry Editor for Persimmon Tree: a marvelous sheaf of East Coast poets. Cynthia Hogue’s remarks about me, and mine about the winning poems, illustrate just how much poetry our teachers and our friends make of our lives. (photo by Paula Schultz for this feature in the magazine )
I treasure TAB’s aesthetic design as well as the poetry!
TAB: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics
A good many of my poems have appeared in Notre Dame Review.
Notre Dame Review #41
Virginia Utermohlen sponsored such a fun reading—with takeaway!
Zyn Yoga Center poetry reading by Cornell poet Mary Gilliland
Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival while teaching at Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar
at Faisal Museum, Doha – photo illustration for Bedouin Today online journal
I lived in Doha before Qatar sponsored the Asian Games. There were still vestiges of Bedouin life. Sheikha Moza sponsored an international cultural conference every few weeks. The best of both worlds!
One of my favorite writing residencies is in Scotland.
Scottish Thistle
Hawthornden Castle
We speak, alone and together!
AWP Candlelight Vigil in Lafayette Park, Washington DC 2016
visit to Robert Frost
One day I was taking a break from an inspiring residency at The Studios at Mass MoCA and stopped the car for a walk by a New England church and discovered the grave of Robert Frost.
I met Richard Henley at a voice workshop with Jill Purce. We share a love of ancient megalithic sites.
Avebury poem written during residency at the Djerassi Foundation, paired with photo of megalith by Richard Henley
From devoted child to devoted poet, Mary Gilliland shares holy cards, memorabilia, family photos, drafts of her writing, ending with a classic photo of poets with Ginsberg, Waldman, Creeley at the 1986 HD centennial conference in Orono, Maine.
See more on my Youtube channel!