Mary Newell authored the chapbooks TILT/ HOVER/ VEER (Codhill Press 2019) and Re-SURGE (Trainwreck Press, now from the author), poems in journals including About Place, Interim, Talisman, BlazeVox, Clockwise Cat, Spoon River Poetry Review, x-peri, Hopper Literary Magazine, Earth’s Daughters, Written River, Chronogram, Ethel, Plants and Poetry, and in several anthologies. Her book ENTWINE is forthcoming form BlazeVox Books.

 

She has published essays including “When Poetry Rivers” (Interim journal fall 2021). She is co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary and the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. 

 

Newell teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Connecticut, Stamford and intermittent online classes. She lives in the Hudson Highlands of New York, where she is an avid gardener

of pollinator-friendly plants.

 

Recording of an interview on ecopoetics with the Brooklyn Rail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIIp-pbuSjM.

 

Newell (MA Columbia, BA Berkeley) received a doctorate from Fordham University with a focus on environment and embodiment

in contemporary women’s writing. She continues to expand her knowledge and experience base in ecology neuropsychology,

botany, and poetics. 

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