#SmallBeautiesHour Ground level - just like #poetry - on the land are a couple of my civic contributions to my community. Thanks to the crews who helped! #gardening #FlowerReport #Flowers🌱

#SmallBeautiesHour #FlowersOnFriday Through sun, through rain - just like #poetry - brilliant weeks of hellebore are reluctant to end their blooming season #gardening #FlowerReport #Flowers🌱

#SmallBeautiesHour #FlowersOnFriday This crab apple, planted in 1989, last year was so wizened & unblooming we almost cut it down. Just like #poetry - resonant once again this spring #gardening #FlowerReport #Flowers🌱

I appreciate you, enthusiastic & very crowded audience. Peter & I hadn’t read together since I don’t know when. Thank you for coming by, listening, and mingling!

Mary Gilliland@newsthatstays.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mary & Peter invite you to their reading, conversation, booksigning: Come hear about Love & Loss, about Protest & Peace! at Autumn Leaves on the Ithaca Commons Thursday 6 pm Mary marygilliland.com Peter peterfortunato.net/poetry-books...

Mary & Peter invite you to their reading, conversation, booksigning: Come hear about Love & Loss, about Protest & Peace! at Autumn Leaves on the Ithaca Commons Thursday 6 pm Mary marygilliland.com Peter peterfortunato.net/poetry-books...

#SmallBeautiesHour #FlowersOnFriday Just back from another #poetry retreat at the edge of #Ireland --back home, that is #gardening #FlowerReport #Flowers🌱

#SmallBeautiesHour #FlowersOnFriday Just back from another writing retreat at the edge of #Ireland

Thanks, marvelous audience at Funny Weather Bookshop over on Highgate last month! Next stop is Hampstead : I’m reading at Keats House on 16 April. Booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/within-the...

Within the Shop of the Divine: Poetry Reading with Mary Gilliland

Acclaimed American author Mary Gilliland will read from her first book out in the UK, 'Within the Shop of the Divine'.

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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🌱

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

𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝@nashishereforit.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Wow.

“...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 phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

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.

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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.

America Is HardER To Find

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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! odysseybookstore.com/event/2026-0...

'Big spiral' by textile artist Isabel Moore #WomensArt

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...

Mary Gilliland@newsthatstays.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Within the Shop of the Divine, airlifted across the Pond, has landed on my doorstep! Order from Arc #poetry or DM for autographed copy. You did not woo this banshee. You cameod a smiling girl to spend steady days with, got tangled with my scrimshaw toes looping the strand of upstate winters. #books

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🌱

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

Sarabande Books@sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Good morning! Poetry is resistance. 🔥

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/

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…

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

AWP@awpwriter.org · 10mo ago

Happy (belated) pub day to WITHIN THE SHOP OF THE DIVINE by @newsthatstays.bsky.social, released over the weekend! Find this poetry collection and more new releases on our AWP Member Bookshelf.

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.

Mateo@bozodeluxe.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In this week's New Yorker, an absolute banger by DA Powell: "Senescence"

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...

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

Philly Chapbook Review@phillychapbook.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“...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 phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

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

Nancy Pelosi @pelosi.house.gov · 10mo ago

On #TransgenderDayofRemembrance, we honor the memory of those who have had their lives stolen in cruel acts of bigotry and violence. Trans rights are human rights and we re-commit today to protecting every person’s ability to live openly with safety and dignity.