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Wow! Check out these reviews of Ember Days!

Is a Transcendently Beautiful Place Not to Be Ours? A Review of Ember Days (2024) by Mary Gilliland

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“Ember Days” Mary Gilliland (Codhill Press) – Book review

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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 Nancy Couto at Epoch

by Laurence Carr at Lightwood

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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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Programs funded by Poets & Writers, Inc help make our audiences possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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!

A good many of my poems have appeared in Notre Dame Review.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virginia Utermohlen sponsored such a fun reading—with takeaway!

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We speak, alone and together!

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.

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!