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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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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 5d

“Mary Mackey’s poems are powerful, beautiful, and have extraordinary range. May her concern for the planet help save it.”
—Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior

https://tinyurl.com/2j4f6yak

#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 1h

Poetry readings offer a unique auditory experience, bringing the rhythm and sonic qualities of poems to life for a more profound connection.

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 2h

Hunter-Gatherers, Neolithic Farmers Followed “Danube Route” To Central Europe Expanded, Coexisted and Gradually Mixed

https://tinyurl.com/ze8wxzee

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 3h

"Always Mackey's eye is drawn to the marginalized, the poor, the outcast, the trivialized. She has created an oeuvre, wilder, more open to change with each passing year. Hers is a monumental achievement.”
-D. Nurkse

https://loom.ly/1fx4leo

#poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity

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Sixteen Rivers Press @sixteenrivers.bsky.social · 23h

The countdown begins for our annual Sixteen Rivers fundraiser featuring rock star poets D.A. Powell & Kim Addonizio. We're excited! You're excited! We're all excited! Sunday, Oct. 19, 2-5 pm, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity @dapowell.bsky.social

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Beautiful

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you for sharing this article.

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you.

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Beautiful sunrise.

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Zack Rogow interviewed Mary Mackey on his blog Advice For Writers

Q.: You’ve said that your new poetry book In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse is different from your other collections. How?

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/2p9zbvph

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 1d

“I usually write five days a week for about five to six hours a day.
My ideal setting is a quiet room with nothing to distract me—no pictures on the wall, good light, a window or two that looks out on a tree, a green lawn, or a bit of the sky.”

-Mary Mackey

#Writing Community

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 1d

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks

#Autumn

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 1d

The Year the Horses Came

“I was surprised by the story and really enjoyed book one of the series. I wasn't very far into the book when I knew I was hooked on the story and had to have the other two books to the series "The EarthSong Trilogy".

-Amazon review

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 2d

#NationalFarmersDay in the US is celebrated annually on October 12th.

It is a day dedicated to honoring and showing appreciation for the hard work, dedication, and vital contributions of farmers and ranchers who provide food, fiber, and other agricultural products for the nation and the world.

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 3d

'Whole prehistory of Fife' found in one field, experts say

Archaeologists say they have found evidence that a site in a village near St Andrews has been used by people for about 10,000 years.

https://tinyurl.com/mr874fc3

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for sharing this article.

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 4d

#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology takes you back to 2019, pre-pandemic. A late Neolithic arrowhead from Teesside may have been very well traveled, itself or the flint likely from Devon, over 450km away 🏺 clevelandarchaeology.com/2019/08/11/n...

Neolithic Journey | Eston Hills arrowhead is well-travelled!

A late Neolithic arrowhead, a Ripple-flaked Oblique type more than 5000 years old and discovered in the 1980s, has always stood out amongst other finds because of the unusual quality of the flint a…

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 3d

This is fantastic!

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Sad.

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Very nice.

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 4d

"We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share."

-Maya Angelou

Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Excerpt from Et
your Great Aunt Ebbie has suffered a farm accident
my mother says

what she means my father says
is that a hog et your Aunt Ebbie.

et all of her? I ask

no, just her left leg
and part of her right arm

Listen here: https://loom.ly/pj5-H5Y

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 4d

“Mackey takes us on a journey to the mysterious place where creativity begins. Her quest makes this a book for anyone who wants to explore how ideas and bursts of insight come, not just to poets and novelists, but to us all.” –Mara Lynn Keller
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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Fascintating!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 5d

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line.
The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.

On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld

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The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Enjoy!