Mary Rose O'Reilley

Mary Rose O'Reilley is an American poet and writer of non-fiction.

Life

She was born in Pampa, Texas, and educated in Roseville and Saint Paul, Minnesota. She was raised a Catholic, and served as a novice in a religious community. She is now a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She has spent time in Buddhist practice, in particular under Thich Nhat Hanh. ^[1] She graduated from the College of St. Catherine and completed graduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

From 1978 to 2006, she taught English and environmental studies at St. Thomas College.^[2]

She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Awards

• 2005 Walt Whitman Award
• Contemplative Studies Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies
• Bush Artist Grant
• McKnight Award of Distinction.

Works

• "The Plain Speech". Orion Magazine. March/April 2009. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/poem/4421/. 
• "The Abandoned Farm". Poetry. March 2007. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179345. 
• Alice Peck, ed (2008). "Key Lime Pie". Bread, Body, Spirit. SkyLight Paths Publishing. ISBN 9781594732423. http://books.google.com/?id=Fsn4P6hyH48C&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=Mary+Rose+O%E2%80%99Reilley. 

Poetry

• Half Wild. Louisiana State University Press. 2006. ISBN 9780807131626. http://books.google.com/?id=VGxkUlA_X7IC&dq=Mary+Rose+O+Reilley&printsec=frontcover. 

Non-fiction

• The Barn at the End of the World. 2000. ISBN 9781571312549. 
• The love of impermanent things: a threshold ecology. Milkweed Editions. 2006. ISBN 9781571312839. 
• The Peaceable Classroom. Boynton/Cook. November 17, 1993. ISBN 9780867093285. 

Ploughshares^{[dead link]}

• "Sellers Motivated". Ploughshares. Winter 2007-08. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8770. ^{[dead link]}
• "Improving the Neighborhood". Ploughshares. Winter 2007-08. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8800. ^{[dead link]}
• "Cleaning the Basement". Ploughshares. Winter 2007-08. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8801. ^{[dead link]}

Reviews

The word "soul" is printed fifteen times in Mary Rose O’Reilley’s Walt Whitman Award winning book, which is probably too many for any single volume of poetry. Predictably, her obsession with the soul signals a preoccupation with death, a well-worn path in poetry that much of O'Reilly's book travels...At her best, however, O’Reilley undoubtedly manages to recreate and call forth the wild impulse within us all.^[3]

References

1. ^ http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/books.php?id=2194
2. ^ http://www.stthomas.edu/english/margins/archives/Fall06WITM.pdf
3. ^ Melinda Wilson (May 17, 2006). "A Load of Warm Souls". Cold Front Magazine. http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/2006/05/half_wild_by_ma.html. 

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