Mary Mackey, author

Beautiful.

Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful cover.

Two Poems by Molly Fisk Salvation Menu A biscuit with specks of black pepper. Warm beets and cool plums together under shaved fennel. Maybe you think food is only fuel, as simple as shoveling coal into the maw of a steamb…

Two poems to wet your whistle by poet and longtime friend of Sixteen Rivers Press, Molly Fisk. #poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity #poetnews

Thanks for posting this.

Pentre Ifan, the remnants of a probable Neolithic burial chamber near Newport in North Wales, for #TombTuesday (mixed media drawing on A2 paper).
#PentreIfan #dowsing #neolithic

Poets often play with language, using metaphors, similes, wordplay, and ambiguity.

This requires readers to engage actively with the text, interpreting multiple meanings and considering the relationships between words and ideas.

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

A Hunter's Moon is the traditional name for the first full moon after the Harvest Moon, which is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox.

A supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon's closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit.

#FullMoon

Mackey chose to make the ecology of the tropical rain forests of Costa Rica one of her primary themes, depicting the beauty and fragility of a complex natural ecosystem endangered by human incursions.

https://loom.ly/L7AyhmA

#fiction #liberation #immersion

Thank you for raising awareness.

Incredible find.

12,000-year-old human-faced pillar unearthed in Karahantepe marks new chapter in archaeology - Türkiye Today A human-faced T-shaped pillar found in Karahantepe marks a historic first, revealing early artistic expression from 12,000 years ago

Türkiye’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, announced that archaeologists have uncovered a T-shaped pillar depicting a human face in Karahantepe—marking the first such discovery in history.

www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/1200...

Stunning.

Expressway work leads to discovery of peculiar 6,000-year-old settlement in Poland

https://tinyurl.com/2wpbk8k4

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope

“October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

#fall #October

The Village of Bones, gives us the vivid adventures of The Clan of the Cave Bear, the magic of The Mists of Avalon and Lord of the Rings, and the beauty of Avatar.

-Dorothy Hearst

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#HistoricalFiction

Archaeologists trace ancient footprints in a cave

https://tinyurl.com/463pe6uw

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod

Archeologists Uncover 5,500 Year Old Pyramids In Poland That May Change History

https://loom.ly/yIs2nOk

#pyramids

This is unfortunate.

Organized!

Thank you for sharing these statistics.

News - Germany’s Early Neolithic Farmers Diversified Their Crops - Archaeology Magazine COLOGNE, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Cologne, a new study of […]

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The study further suggests that after about 4350 B.C., the diversity of Neolithic crops declined, perhaps because cattle farming was on the rise.

Did this mark the arrival of the Indo-European speaking Yamnoya from S-W Russia

Mary became a writer by running high fevers, tramping through tropical jungles, being swarmed by army ants, and reading. She is the author of 9 poetry collections, including In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse.

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#InThisBurningWorld

Hayward Public Library’s 2025 Local Author Festival

October 4, 2025
1:00 PM
Mary Mackey and 24 other authors

Hayward Public Library, 888 C Street, Hayward, CA 94541. Fremont Bank Foundation Room.

https://loom.ly/XRt-Rnc

The history of Europe begins with prehistoric cultures and the spread of agriculture from the Near East around 7000 BCE. The Neolithic Revolution transformed European societies from nomadic hunters to settled farmers.

https://tinyurl.com/mrx2nb2r

#Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod

My first novel, Immersion (Shameless Hussy Press, 1972) is set in the rain forests of Costa Rica. It takes as its subjects ecology and feminism, and is believed to be the first feminist novel published by a Second Wave American feminist press.

-Mary Mackey

#EcoPoet #poet

The Fires of Spring
“I love the story, her style of writing is creative, and light, but serious enough to make you think about how much we are destroying our beautiful Mother Earth.”

-Amazon review

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#HistoricalFiction #FantasyFiction

Fascinating article making a reasonable case that this neolithic rock engraving from 2000-5000 years ago in Alta, northern Norway, shows a Great Auk (now extinct) being captured. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Incredible.

Fabulous!