Mary Mackey, author
@marymackeyauthor.bsky.social
Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
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“Mackey’s poem “The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 2: White Birches is one of the most magnificent poems ever written, and one of the most beautiful poems in English.”
-Hillary Frasier Hayes
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-Hillary Frasier Hayes
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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
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earthwaves.co.uk/2025/11/24/w...
The latest update from Earthwaves. #westkennet #longbarrow #neolithic
The latest update from Earthwaves. #westkennet #longbarrow #neolithic
Exploring the Mystical Resonance of West Kennet Long Barrow
Explore the mystical West Kennet Long Barrow and discover how ancient landscapes connect us to our past and inner selves.
earthwaves.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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The latest update from Earthwaves. #westkennet #longbarrow #neolithic
The latest update from Earthwaves. #westkennet #longbarrow #neolithic
“I am less interested in discovering an explanation for why these things happen to me than in the result, for starting at a very young age, fever gave me priceless poetic gifts: metaphor, because it showed me how one thing could easily become another;”
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November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“I am less interested in discovering an explanation for why these things happen to me than in the result, for starting at a very young age, fever gave me priceless poetic gifts: metaphor, because it showed me how one thing could easily become another;”
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#PoetrySky
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6,000-Year-Old Chewing Gum Reveals Clues on Neolithic Gender Roles
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3kke6cz6
#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
6,000-Year-Old Chewing Gum Reveals Clues on Neolithic Gender Roles
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3kke6cz6
#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3kke6cz6
#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
“Mackey’s poem “The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 2: White Birches is one of the most magnificent poems ever written, and one of the most beautiful poems in English.”
-Hillary Frasier Hayes
https://loom.ly/d0VuKgc
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
-Hillary Frasier Hayes
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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Mackey’s poem “The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 2: White Birches is one of the most magnificent poems ever written, and one of the most beautiful poems in English.”
-Hillary Frasier Hayes
https://loom.ly/d0VuKgc
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
-Hillary Frasier Hayes
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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland
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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland
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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
https://loom.ly/7WH1bQU
#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
“I had a hard time putting this book down to sleep. Incredible writing, well-developed characters and storyline. A must-read for pre-historic fiction fanatics!”
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#HistoricalFiction #FantasyFiction #ReadingCommunity
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November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“I had a hard time putting this book down to sleep. Incredible writing, well-developed characters and storyline. A must-read for pre-historic fiction fanatics!”
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#HistoricalFiction #FantasyFiction #ReadingCommunity
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“Escape from The Fat Farm is a brilliant, surreal, darkly funny book that stuck in my memory like literary crazy glue long after I put it down."
- Jean Taylor
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#EscapeFromTheFatFarm #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
- Jean Taylor
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#EscapeFromTheFatFarm #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“Escape from The Fat Farm is a brilliant, surreal, darkly funny book that stuck in my memory like literary crazy glue long after I put it down."
- Jean Taylor
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#EscapeFromTheFatFarm #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
- Jean Taylor
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#EscapeFromTheFatFarm #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
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The U.K. is studded with megalithic formations dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze ages. Many are finding in them a portal to the sacred. religionnews.com/2025/11/21/h...
How the UK's ancient stones are drawing renewed awareness of the sacred
PENZANCE, England (RNS) — The United Kingdom is studded with megalithic formations dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze ages. Many are finding in them a portal to the sacred.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The U.K. is studded with megalithic formations dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze ages. Many are finding in them a portal to the sacred. religionnews.com/2025/11/21/h...
Gerry Fialka interviews Mary Mackey
Part One https://tinyurl.com/355vmjt3
Part Two https://tinyurl.com/36nmasdj
#AuthorInterview #creativity
Part One https://tinyurl.com/355vmjt3
Part Two https://tinyurl.com/36nmasdj
#AuthorInterview #creativity
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Gerry Fialka interviews Mary Mackey
Part One https://tinyurl.com/355vmjt3
Part Two https://tinyurl.com/36nmasdj
#AuthorInterview #creativity
Part One https://tinyurl.com/355vmjt3
Part Two https://tinyurl.com/36nmasdj
#AuthorInterview #creativity
Karahantepe project probes Neolithic eating habits
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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope
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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Karahantepe project probes Neolithic eating habits
https://tinyurl.com/yc8n54yv
#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope
https://tinyurl.com/yc8n54yv
#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope
"Mackey's crisp-edged perceptions are set down with a sensuous, compassionate, and utterly unflinching eye."
-Jane Hirshfield
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-Jane Hirshfield
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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Mackey's crisp-edged perceptions are set down with a sensuous, compassionate, and utterly unflinching eye."
-Jane Hirshfield
https://loom.ly/Cypgmnk
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
-Jane Hirshfield
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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
Some kind of WONDERFUL is happening tonight, Nov. 20, in Berkeley! Poetry Flash is hosting a reading by poets Camille Norton and Rosa Lane: 7 pm at the Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue. Come listen to these wild women get their poems on! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #PoetryFlash
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The Cradle of Zeus: Mount Ida and the Birth of Greek Mythology
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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The Cradle of Zeus: Mount Ida and the Birth of Greek Mythology
https://tinyurl.com/yc6749zk
#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
https://tinyurl.com/yc6749zk
#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod
“I loved how the characters' stories overlap and connect, and how time moves in a mosaic-like way. The book is brief, but satisfying.”
-Amazon review
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#fiction #immersion
-Amazon review
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#fiction #immersion
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“I loved how the characters' stories overlap and connect, and how time moves in a mosaic-like way. The book is brief, but satisfying.”
-Amazon review
https://loom.ly/L7AyhmA
#fiction #immersion
-Amazon review
https://loom.ly/L7AyhmA
#fiction #immersion
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Excavations are underway at Qeshlaq Tappaci with the goal to compile the cultural characteristics of the #Neolithic era in the NW Iranian region, as well as to present the time period of these cultures within the framework of Iranian arch. chronology. https://tinyurl.com/5ybhr4sh
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Excavations are underway at Qeshlaq Tappaci with the goal to compile the cultural characteristics of the #Neolithic era in the NW Iranian region, as well as to present the time period of these cultures within the framework of Iranian arch. chronology. https://tinyurl.com/5ybhr4sh
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes
― John Holmes
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes
― John Holmes
"A researcher's precision combined with storytelling magic."
-Marija Gimbutas, author of The Civilization of the Goddess
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#HistoricalFiction
-Marija Gimbutas, author of The Civilization of the Goddess
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#HistoricalFiction
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"A researcher's precision combined with storytelling magic."
-Marija Gimbutas, author of The Civilization of the Goddess
https://loom.ly/hZ_RW7U
#HistoricalFiction
-Marija Gimbutas, author of The Civilization of the Goddess
https://loom.ly/hZ_RW7U
#HistoricalFiction
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What is fascinating about these stones erected by Neolithic men around 6,000 years ago is that they will still be there, standing, when humanity has disappeared.
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What is fascinating about these stones erected by Neolithic men around 6,000 years ago is that they will still be there, standing, when humanity has disappeared.
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The students at Da Vinci Junior High in Davis have done it again: They've put together a third chapbook of ecopoetry—TO THE HUMAN RACE—in which they share not only their profound concern for the fate of our planet but also their abiding hope & love. Come hear them read on Thursday, Dec. 4, 7 pm at
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The students at Da Vinci Junior High in Davis have done it again: They've put together a third chapbook of ecopoetry—TO THE HUMAN RACE—in which they share not only their profound concern for the fate of our planet but also their abiding hope & love. Come hear them read on Thursday, Dec. 4, 7 pm at
"For an infinite period, I rest outside of time. There are colors, forms, sounds, smells, but they sweep through me undifferentiated and unrecorded. Every moment is new. Nothing makes sense, but this does not bother me, because I have no expectation that it should."
Mary Mackey
Mary Mackey
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"For an infinite period, I rest outside of time. There are colors, forms, sounds, smells, but they sweep through me undifferentiated and unrecorded. Every moment is new. Nothing makes sense, but this does not bother me, because I have no expectation that it should."
Mary Mackey
Mary Mackey
How Olive Oil Shaped Ancient Greek History, Mythology and Philosophy for 7,000 Years
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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #OliveOil
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#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #OliveOil
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
How Olive Oil Shaped Ancient Greek History, Mythology and Philosophy for 7,000 Years
https://tinyurl.com/3tfea6cv
#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #OliveOil
https://tinyurl.com/3tfea6cv
#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #OliveOil
“Mary 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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–Mara Lynn Keller
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November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Mary 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
https://loom.ly/8VATbfc
–Mara Lynn Keller
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The latest issue of A.E. Stallings' Echolocations #poetry newsletter is now live!
This issue explores Karen Solie’s “Meadowlark” from Wellwater, "a mostly unrhymed sonnet, that seems to place itself somewhere between Shelley’s ethereal “blithe spirit,” and John Clare’s more grounded skylark."
This issue explores Karen Solie’s “Meadowlark” from Wellwater, "a mostly unrhymed sonnet, that seems to place itself somewhere between Shelley’s ethereal “blithe spirit,” and John Clare’s more grounded skylark."
Echolocations: Reflections on Poems by A.E Stallings (Issue 5)
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November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The latest issue of A.E. Stallings' Echolocations #poetry newsletter is now live!
This issue explores Karen Solie’s “Meadowlark” from Wellwater, "a mostly unrhymed sonnet, that seems to place itself somewhere between Shelley’s ethereal “blithe spirit,” and John Clare’s more grounded skylark."
This issue explores Karen Solie’s “Meadowlark” from Wellwater, "a mostly unrhymed sonnet, that seems to place itself somewhere between Shelley’s ethereal “blithe spirit,” and John Clare’s more grounded skylark."