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Mary Mackey, author

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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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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.

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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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Creativity: Where Poems Begin

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

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#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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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

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#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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nesta cidade dos sonhos
in this city of hallucinations
the air is like cola quente / hot glue
and the buildings are stuck waist-deep
in asphalt tΓ£o suave / so soft

excerpt Travelers with No Ticket Home

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#poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

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The grains of sand that solve Stonehenge mystery after 5,000 years: Scientists uncover new evidence the stones were moved by humans – and not glaciers

tinyurl.com/3b6t97s9

#Neolithic #Stonehenge

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β€œI thought this book interesting and one that I most certainly did not put aside. It held my interest with the characters well written and believable.”

-Amazon review

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#fiction #immersion

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Did you know you can celebrate Read an eBook Week without spending a dime?

Check out your local library’s Libby or Hoopla app to borrow eBooks instantly.

#ReadAnEBookWeek

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β€œIn This Burning World offers poems of both β€œlove and apocalypse”, merging the connotation of burning into a sense of fire and destruction, renewal and purpose.”

- review from Letters by Layla

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#poems #poetry #InThisBurningWorld

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Stone Age Temple Mystery | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official Stone Age Temple Mystery | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

Watching this and doing the LeoDiCaprioPointing.jpg face at all the names I've seen in academic journals.

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Sounds solid! Best wishes.

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