‘Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World’ to Open NewportFilm Outdoors as Festival Unveils 2026 Summer Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/2026/film/markets-festivals/newportfilm-outdoors-summer-2026-lineup-1236783678/

‘Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World’ to Open NewportFilm Outdoors as Festival Unveils 2026 Summer Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #MarketsFestivals #News #BillieJeanKing #MaryOliver #NewportFilm

https://variety.com/2026/film/markets-festivals/newportfilm-outdoors-summer-2026-lineup-1236783678/

W3 Prompt #215: Wea’ve Written Weekly

Intro

Dear friends,

Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish.

You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tldr’ version:

Part I

The main ingredient of W3 is a weekly poem written by a Poet of the Week (PoW), which participants read before participating in the prompt.

Part II

The second ingredient is a writing guideline (or two) provided by the PoW. Guidelines may include, but are not limited to: word counts, poetic forms, inclusion of specific words, and use of particular poetic devices.

Part III

After five days, when the prompt closes, the PoW shall select one participant’s poem as the W3 prompt for the following week, and its author becomes the next PoW.

Simple enough, right?

Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing!

I. The prompt poem:

‘a runicible frolic’ by Artie Camenzind

II. Artie’s prompt: Drifting

Inspired by Mary Oliver’s poem Drifting:

Use either (or both) of these lines as a starting point for your poem:

• “my delicious walk in the rain”
• “what it is that music is trying to say”

You don’t need to quote them directly. Let them guide you toward a memory, a moment of wonder, an encounter with weather, music, or something else that seemed to speak in a language beyond words.

See where the drift takes you.

III. Submit: Click on ‘Mister Linky’ below

In order to participate and share a poem, open up this blog post, outside of the WordPress reader. At the bottom, just below these words, you will see a small rectangular graphic with the words ‘Mr Linky’. Click on that to submit.

Submissions are open for 5 days, until Monday, June 15, 10:00 AM (GMT+2)

Last week’s W3 poem

This week’s W3 prompt poem (above), composed by Artie, was written in response to last week’s W3 prompt poem, which Deanna wrote:

‘West/East Combo’ by D. Avery

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
-- Mary Oliver

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MaryOliver #Writing

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

The broken world and the fresh morning are the same morning — and you don't have to resolve that apparent contradiction before you're allowed to feel the weight of being here.

This week's reflection: https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflection-2025-05-21

#MaryOliver #LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #ClimateAdaptation

Creative work

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

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Knowing and not knowing at conferences through the lens of Mary Oliver’s poetry, where metrics meet wonder, connection, and the intangible

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/12/knowing

#eventprofs #metrics #wonder #knowing #MaryOliver #EventDesign #poetry #owl

Mary Oliver, la escritora que celebra la naturaleza para alejarse del ruido y los horrores de la humanidad

Dos nuevas traducciones de la autora estadounidense ponen de relieve su espíritu libre, deudor de naturalistas como Henry David Thoreau y Ralph Waldo Emerson

Origen: Mary Oliver, la escritora que celebra la naturaleza para alejarse del ruido y los horrores de la humanidad

When I Am Among Trees by Mary Oliver

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It's simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
#poetry #MaryOliver

Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/03/mary-oliver-blue-horses-fourth-sign-of-the-zodiac/