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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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How Can an Author Boost Social Media Engagement?

Roll up your sleeves! You can't post day after day and expect engagement from your followers unless you initiate it.

Social engagement is about being social.

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Congratulations on this review.

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Fabulous perspective.

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Interesting study.

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β€œIf there is hope for us, and there must be, Mackey seems to be saying that it sits in this ability to love the other. It is on this note that the book ends, with the final lines of the penultimate poem, the one that gives the collection its title.”

tinyurl.com/4wytnus7

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Seeds preserved for about a thousand years in ponds formed at the end of the last ice age, have germinated in a laboratory and reveal the potential to restore ancestral plant species that disappeared due to climate change.

tinyurl.com/3uebj5js

#Neolithic

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β€œCompelling read from start to finish. Hard to put down! Well worth reading the whole trilogy as once you start you won't be content with just one book! You will want to know what happens.”

-Amazon review

https://amzn.to/3HNaPSg

#HistoricalFiction

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thank you for sharing!

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Wonderful!

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Fantastic!

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Hilarious

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What is the source of creativity? Where do poems come from? How does an artist come into being?

Sean Marlon Newcombe, Dawn "Sam" Alden and Vicki Noble join Mary.

https://bit.ly/3UYy2Wp

#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

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To be notified of updates, book releases, events and personal appearances by Mary Mackey and receive her quarterly newsletter, please join our mailing list.

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#poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

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Creativity: Where Poems Begin

A meditation on how the sources of creativity emerged from a vast, wordless reality and became available to a poet.

https://amzn.to/3iSr07g

#poems #poetry #meditation #creativity

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Looking forward to listening to this episode.

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Fantastic!

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A Fingerprint Taken From Stonehenge Changes Everything We Know About Its Mystical Origins Here’s how scientists unlocked new hidden secrets of the iconic monument.

Neolithic Britons were running 500-mile marine supply chains while we thought they were just stacking local rocks. Your β€œancient mystery” was logistics supremacy.

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Fantastic!

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National Reading Month takes place every March to commemorate the birthday of Dr. Seuss.

It’s a time when people of all agesβ€”especially childrenβ€”dive into books and celebrate the joy of reading with extra enthusiasm.

#ReadingCommunity

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Archaeologists working in Cyprus have uncovered new evidence of early human construction and stone structures during the 2025 excavation season at the prehistoric site of Agios Ioannis/Vretsia-Roudias.

tinyurl.com/bdd7ex3p

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod

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β€œMackey’s poems crackle with powerful, lush energy.”

-Marge Piercy, author and poet

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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

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BBC Two - Digging for Britain, Series 9, Episode 3 Excavating a Norman castle, a Neolithic tomb and Scotland’s oldest railway.

8pm TODAY on @BBCTwo

Digging for Britain
s9 Ep 3 of 6, North

@theAliceRoberts on the best #Archaeology from northern Britain, including Scotland’s oldest railway, one of the best-preserved Norman castles and an extraordinary find from a Neolithic tomb

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Sabbaticals are a good reset.

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Beautiful cover.

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The full moon today is the Worm Moon. It is the traditional name for the full moon that occurs in March signaling the end of winter and the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

#FullMoon

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Through its verses, ecopoetry confronts the realities of global warming, habitat loss, and ecological decay.

#EcoPoetry #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

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β€œRecovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forrΓ³, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.”

-D. S. Nurske

https://amzn.to/3lGjNYY

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

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It wasn't in Altamira or France: the oldest cave painting on the planet (67,800 years old) appears in a remote cave in Asia and forever changes the map of human creativity A 67,800 year old handprint in Indonesia is now the oldest known cave painting, reshaping the story of human creativity.

the stencil must be at least 67,800 years old.

One finger appears deliberately narrowed, giving the outline a claw-like look that so far has only been documented in this region and may hint at a symbolic meaning that researchers cannot yet decode.

www.ecoticias.com/en/it-wasnt-...

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Beautiful.

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Congratulations, Michelle.

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