The Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg welcomes Mary Gilliland, a local writer, for a reading as a part of the Arts and Letters Reading Series.
Gilliland will read an essay published in the recent prose anthology From the Finger Lakes. She will also read a few excerpts from her new manuscript Intelligence of the Water, a multivocal weaving of atomic energy, a brother’s social activism, and an ancient Japanese legend.
Thursday, October 20th from 6:30-7:30 pm.
Born in Philadelphia, MARY GILLILAND lives in Ithaca, New York, where she has taught writing at Cornell University and at Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies, the Dalai Lama’s seat in North America. Honors include the Stanley Kunitz Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year Award for Nature Poetry, and being a featured poet at the Al Jazeera Film Festival in Doha. She is a 2016 studio resident at MASS MoCA. MARY GILLILAND’s poetry has appeared in AGNI, Chautauqua, Hotel Amerika, Nimrod, Notre Dame Review, Poetry, Stand, Seneca Review, Tampa Review and The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing. “She is not afraid of delight, neither does she shirk the hard tasks of anger, pain, and deep caring,” said Mary Oliver about Gilliland’s letterpress collection Gathering Fire. Her essay ‘Iroquoia’ appears in From the Finger Lakes: A Prose Anthology.