Mary Gilliland

Today's mail brought @Stand_poetry new issue. Such admirable company!

#Poetry to the rescue! Today’s Community Reading at Poet’s House. poetshouse.org/event/30th-s... I’m on the roster, zooming in, about 3:45 pm. Suggested contribution $10, or if yr in NYC pay what you can at the door. #MakeArtNotWar #MakeArtNotWar #MakeArtNotWar

Tickets available, UK! “Within the Shop of the Divine: Poetry Reading with Mary Gilliland” at Keats House in April. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/withi...
Order book from www.arcpublications.co.uk, or cash sales at the reading

#Poet lucks out: I love sometimes the world that’s all one color! Yesterdays’ good timing = I strewed locally collected seeds of #wildflowers that need winter’s striation. #bloomscrolling #NativePlants #WildflowerHour #FlowerReport #Flowers🌱

I have a hand-me-down clump of these, and wish I could tell you, but the name has dropped off my radar. They are beauties!

cover image of poet Mary Gilliland’s ‘Within the Shop of the Divine'

40 years ago Allen Ginsberg told me I must be shameless self-promoting, and I finally am: full description. of this book & others on marygilliland.com my website

art IS long
continues what ever the circumstances,,,which are not 4ever
💚 #poetry #MakeArtNotWar #MakeArtNotWar #MakeArtNotWar

Chapbook Poem: Red Tide by Mary Gilliland Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for November 2025, "Two egrets at the edge of a tidal marsh" from What the Hollow Held, along with a few words from the poet.

“...3 weeks of bicycling for groceries with a bandana tied around my nose and mouth informs ‘Red Tide’.” Read the featured #Chapbook #Poem for December 2025, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
@newsthatstays.bsky.social
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Very powerful. ‘Sloshing and tidy/…’ Thank you for sharing!

America Is HardER To Find

A vital reading for #MLK day: 2nd entry on americaishardertofind.wordpress.com/blog/ has excerpts and complete text of MLKjr at Riverside Church on the United States’ triad of militarism, racism, materialism.

Come one come all! to the in-person Ithaca NY #poetry #reading that James Byrne and I will give on 1/22/2026 from our new Arc Publication #books and more. Thank you @pw.org for your support!
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Textile artwork featuring a multicoloured spiral on a pink motled background

'Big spiral' by textile artist Isabel Moore #WomensArt

image of Yeats poem ‘After Long Silence’ with amber lamplight on a writing table

Back for the new year. Apologies for having absconded. I’ve been editing #poetry. Sending everyone good wishes for health and courage.

Summoning religion, mythology and memory 'Within the Shop of the Divine' - a recent interview by Kate Blackwood with @Arc_Poetry author Mary Gilliland @newsthatstays.bsky.social @CornellNews read here as.cornell.edu/news/summoni...

really wonderful and I enjoyed opening right to this feature. Many congratulations!

My sister’s ashes a year after her death on my garden—which she helped to start digging out of the bedrock. PHOTO

My sister’s ashes a year after her death on my garden—which she helped to start digging out of the bedrock. #SmallBeautiesHour #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling
#gardening #Flowers🌱

yes!

Poetry is intelligence. Poetry is the sacred. Poetry is hale and hearty. Let #poetry thrive.

Writing for Your Life: A Final Assignment My observation has been that the most valuable advice for student writers, especially when they are on their own after school ends, is Just Do It. The enclosed text is the last assignment that…

I approached teaching as a self-reflective practice of re-imagining, co-creating, learning from each other. You too can carry out my FINAL ASSIGNMENT from those wondrous decades of teaching at Cornell! (Thank you for the reprint, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social) www.whaleroadreview.com/gilliland/

awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Membership/AWP-Member-Bookshelf-Information.aspx?id=116472&seq=349 📖🖊️🎉🥳 #poetry #bookstoread

Spent November in a re-read of the compassion & wisdom of “the familiar, yet always bone-chilling, firesound associated with the matterlightblooming phenomenon.” Thank you George Saunders! Prose #books don’t get any better. #HHDL #Dharma #Buddhism #American #history Lincoln in the Bardo

Love the botany (nearly) (as) much as the internal rhyme. A wunderpoem. Again & again.

Girl Guides of Canada Inclusion makes Girl Guides of Canada stronger. It ensures that girls and youth have a place to build confidence, develop the skills to thrive and connect with a community that sees them for who they truly are. Girl Guides of Canada welcomes all girls - cisgender and transgender - as well as non-binary people who are comfortable in spaces that focus on and are driven by the experience of girls. Learn more about our commitment to inclusivity and accessibility at girlguides.ca/inclusivity

Girl Guides logo with a trans flag ribbon in one corner.

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️

Summoning religion, mythology and memory 'Within the Shop of the Divine' - a recent interview by Kate Blackwood with @Arc_Poetry author Mary Gilliland @CornellNews
read here as.cornell.edu/news/summoni...

I stayed home from that movie

‘dawn’s 40 watt moon’ ! just how it is on dawn snow.
then the weekend I expect wattage is 150.
Usually I’m an easy & sound sleeper. Not last night. It was like the full moon moved more slowly and more brightly than usual, and acceptance of mortality filtered into my brain.
Niedecker's perfect poem.

🙏🏽🎶

Love this ‪coverage of my ‘Red Tide’ poem & its chap in this online magazine from the city where I was born 🥰@phillychapbook.bsky.social‬ 🥰

Ithaca, NY 22 Nov 9PM joins FALL OF FREEDOM nationwide US arts & literature events #MakeArtNotWar First hour is yours truly with several other scheduled #poetry readers hour followed by 1 hr open mic. At the Soil Factory on Rt 13

My brother Ed—memorialized in this #poetry #book —helped organize across New Mexico to pass its pioneering 2003 hate crimes law.
#TransgenderDayOfRemembrance