Mary C.M. Phillips's Blog, page 3
December 31, 2022
May 19, 2022
Poems for Ukraine and spoken word #poetry
Where Flowers Bloom is a collection of poetry supporting the people of Ukraine. I’m happy to have my poem, Spring Prevails, included in this beautiful book.
This collection features the work of Angelo B. Ancheta, Lynne Bernfield, Vanessa Caraveo, Deborah Coy, Linda M. Crate, David Dephy, Steve deWolfe, Carol Edwards, Joseph A Farina, Clare Green, Alex Grehy, Maureen Hadzick, Sharon A. Harmon, Mark Andrew Heathcote, Kadambari Kaul, David Lange, Wayne Lee, Mary McKeel, Karen Melander-Magoon, Jill Ocone, Dorothy Oger, Mary C. M. Phillips, Sally Quon, Janet Ruth, Kathryn Sadakierski, Jasmine Tritten, J R Turek and Scott Wiggerman.
The publisher, Red Penguin Books, will be donating the proceeds received from the sale of this book to the humanitarian crisis facing Ukraine and will match all book sale proceeds as well in support of this cause.
To listen to me reciting Spring Prevails – along with Mark Phillips on guitar – click the PLAY button below.
Spring PrevailsMay 7, 2022
Where Flowers Bloom (poetry for Ukraine)
So happy to be part of this poetry project. All the proceeds received from the sale of this book will be donated to the humanitarian crisis facing Ukraine. The publisher will match all book sale proceeds as well in support of this cause.
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Flowers-Bloom-Strength-Resilience/dp/1637772653/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=ID2KMJRAJ7Q9&keywords=where+flowers+bloom+poems&qid=1651974586&sprefix=%2Caps%2C52&sr=8-1
April 18, 2022
Paumanok (poetry & art)
Today I received this beautiful coffee-table book full of poetry and photographs.
Paumanok Transitions, edited by Kathaleen Donnelly, is tribute to the unique and sublime nature of Long Island. Poems by Long Island native, Walt Whitman, also weave in and out of the pages.
The poem I wrote for the book, The Three Sisters, is a fable-like poem that explores the relationship between the three prominent vegetables grown by the Algonquin who dwelled in the county of Suffolk.
I’m excited to be part of such an artful project — alongside several Long Island Poet Laureates and award-winning photographers.
Oh, the wonder of poetry and art!
O the amazement of things-even the least particle! — Walt Whitman
The three sisters – corn, beans, squash- (and …my first published photograph)
March 21, 2022
spoken word poetry
LISTEN HERE::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYm87GEYQA
In late 2020, after COVID had altered our lives — as it did for so many others — we decided to move from our home in Long Island to the bucolic hills of Pennsylvania.
TRANSPLANT is a spoken-word poem written just after we moved.
The poem asks a question. Does Nature herself hold memories as we do?
Hope you enjoy it.
Guitar work and production by Mark Phillips.
Transplant can be streamed on Spotify or downloaded from iTunes. The poem also appears, in written form, in the new anthology, The Pennsylvania Bards Eastern PA Poetry Review (available on amazon).
December 13, 2021
A New Poetry Anthology
If you’re from Long Island or appreciate the nature of Long Island, you may very well enjoy Paumanok – Transition. A beautiful poetry — and photographic — anthology.
I’m happy to be a contributor alongside such poetic talent.
Paumanok~Transitions is a tour de force – an impressive performance by poets, photographers and the editor and co-editors! This year-long anthology of poems and photographs begins each month with Whitman’s words which transition the reader from the past to the present. The illuminating poems in this anthology lead the reader backward and forward at the same time – an oxymoron, a feat only possible with words. The poetic words in these pages document transitions of the personal, spiritual, social, sexual, emotional and political, akin to Whitman’s own journey – when he went forth as a child from his Birthplace into the world as a builder’s apprentice, journalist, essayist, newspaper founder, Civil War nurse, novelist, poet and Comerado. His fellow travelers in this volume vividly relate their transitions with spontaneous awareness or aching recall – involving a movement or shift that is transformative for both poet and reader. — Cynthia Shor, Executive Director, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association
May 16, 2021
Harp and poetry
Excited to be part of this virtual poetry event celebrating the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay along with the Long Island Harp Society,
Join us if you’re able (via link below) and have happy, healthy, and poetic day,
Mary 
April 16, 2021
Poetry Contest – national #poetry month
In celebration of National Poetry Month, little infinite is hosting a poetry contest. The theme — as you can see on their website — is the love of poetry itself. How does it inspire you? How does it change you?
Click below to enter the contest (the prize is $300) and feel free to read (or vote for) my poem if you like.
Click here to read (or vote for) my poem, the flickering.
Click here to enter the contest.
Good luck to all – and Happy National Poetry Month!
March 24, 2021
Music of the Forest (spoken word #poetry)
Finally — after glitches that seem to only happen for me — Music of the Forest is (finally) available (for downloading and streaming).
Below is the link.
Wishing you all a non-glitch week, Mary
https://music.apple.com/us/album/music-of-the-forest-spoken-word-poetry/1548859418
January 15, 2021
Music of the Forest
Poetry, music, and literature have been a refuge for me over the last year. Not only in absorbing these blessings…but also in reflecting.
Music of the Forest (an offering of poetry and music written during 2020) is now available on iTunes. Below is the link.
Thanks to all who listen.
Wishing you all a Hopeful New Year,
Mary
https://music.apple.com/us/album/music-of-the-forest-spoken-word-poetry/1548859418
