BioMary Buchinger is the author of five full-length books of poetry: The Book of Shores (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2024; Permafrost Book Prize in Poetry finalist; Hillary Gravendyk Prize, semifinalist), Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, 2023, Honors, Massachusetts Book Award), Virology (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022), einfühlung/in feeling (Main Street Rag, 2018), and Aerialist (Gold Wake, 2015; May Swenson Poetry Award finalist, The Journal /Wheeler Prize semifinalist and Perugia Press Prize semifinalist); and three chapbooks: A Love Story (forthcoming, winner of the 2024 Elyse Wolf/Slate Roof Chapbook Prize); /klaʊdz/ (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021); and Roomful of Sparrows (Finishing Line Press, 2008; New Women’s Voices Series semi-finalist).
She has received poetry awards from the New England Poetry Club and the Virginia Poetry Society, a Norton Island Residency, and over a dozen Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Her poetry appears in AGNI, Gargoyle, Laurel Review, Lincoln Review, Nimrod, On the Seawall, Plume, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, South Dakota Review, Sugar House Review, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and elsewhere. Buchinger was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador and earned a doctorate in linguistics from Boston University. She served on the board of the New England Poetry Club (founded in 1915 by Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, and Conrad Aiken) and is Professor of English and communication studies at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, dog, and two tuxedo cats. Contact
Journals491 Magazine, About Place, Abridged (Ireland), AGNI, AGNI Online, American Athenaeum, and/or, Antiphon Poetry Magazine, Booth, Caesura, Chestnut Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Ellipsis, Euphony, Existere (Canada), Extracts, Fifth Wednesday, Gargoyle, Ibbetson Street Press, Innisfree, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Marginalia, Midway Journal, Naugatuck River Review, New Madrid, Nimrod, Plume, Orbis: An International Quarterly Of Prose And Fiction (England), OVS Magazine, PANK, Qu Literary Magazine, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Quotable, Right Hand Pointing, Runes: A Review of Poetry, Salamander, Salt Hill, SAND (Germany), Shadowgraf, Silk Road, Silver Birch Press, Slice Magazine, Solstice, South Dakota Review, Steam Ticket, The 3288 Review, The Cortland Review, The Massachusetts Review, The MOM Egg, The Quotable, Theology Today, Third Wednesday, Tiny Poetry: Macropoetics, Two Thirds North, Versal (The Netherlands), Wilderness House Literary Review, William & Mary Review, Young Ravens Literary Review, Zoetic Press
ReadingsInternational: San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference and Festival, Mexico; Versal V Reception, Nachttheater SugarFactory, Amsterdam The Netherlands; Border-Crossing Poets, Northeast Modern Languages Conference, Montreal, Canada
National: Library of Congress, Poetry at Noon Series; Popular Culture Conferences in Chicago, Illinois, and Seattle, Washington, Indianapolis, Indiana; The Mom Egg: Mother Tongue Issue, Le Poisson Rouge, New York, New York. Massachusetts: Stockbridge Library, Museum, and Archives; Federated Church, Orleans, MA; Brewster Ladies' Library, Hastings Room, First Church in Cambridge; NoCA, O'Neill Library, Cambridge; Winthrop Play Makers Poetry Reading Series, Winthrop; Newton Free Public Library Poetry Reading Series,Newton; Cervena Bara Press, Arts at the Armory, Somerville; First and Last Word Series, Somerville; The Healing Arts, MCPHS University, Worcester; Cambridge River Fest; Cambridge Poetry Fest, Jose Mateo Theater, Cambridge; Central Square Theater, Cambridge; New England Poets, Northeast Modern Languages Conference, Boston; Bunker Hill Community College, Boston; New England Poetry Club Prize Winners, Yenching Library, Harvard College, Cambridge, Tapestry of Voices Reading Series, Borders Bookstore, Boston, OVS Reading, Berklee College of Music, The Loft, Boston; AGNI: A Celebration, Newtonville Books, Newton; The Old Manse, Concord, MA |
Prizes2024 Elyse Wolf/Slate Roof Press Annual Chapbook Prize; Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, 2023) Honors, Massachusetts Center for the Book; Daniel Varoujian Award; Firman Houghton Award; Best New Poems Online; Robert Warren Penn Award, Honorable Mention; The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Contest, Semi-Finalist; Poetry Society of Virginia, Second Prize; Perugia Press Prize for a First or Second Book, Semi-Finalist; The OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Prize for Poetry, Semi-Finalist; May Swenson Poetry Award, Utah State University, Finalist; Brittany Noakes Poetry Award, Finalist; Emily Stauffer Poetry Prize, Runner-Up; Charter Oak Best Historical Prize, First Place; Luminaire Award, Third Place; Pushcart Prize Nominee (multiple); Brittany Noakes Poetry Award Finalist; Best of the Net Nominee (multiple); Cambridge Sidewalk Poetry Contest, Beals Library Prize Finalist
InterviewsMass Poetry, Getting to Know Mary Buchinger, author of Virology
The Transmitter Interviews for Coil Magazine, with Managing Editor Lisa Favicchia Border Crossing, with Poetry Editor, Julie Brooks Barbour AGNI Online Newsletter, with Alison Lanier The 3288 Review, with Editor John Winkleman Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer, Somerville Community Access TV, with Host Doug Holder AnthologiesVoices Amidst the Virus: Poets respond to the pandemic (Lily Poetry Review, 2020); Essential: An anthology (Underground Writers Association, 2020); On and off the road: Poems of New Hampshire (Peterborough Poetry Project, 2019) Sacred Spaces Folio, MER VOX, (2019);, Alphanumeric 8: The Art of War, Nonbinary Review, (Zoetic Press, 2016); The Quieting, (Platypus Press, UK, 2016); EAT/ATE (Petit Press, 2015); Heartbreak Anthology (Ed. K. Mahdessian, 2015); How to Live on Other Planets, A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens (Upper Rubber Boots, 2015); Homesickness and Exile (The Emma Press, Ltd., UK, 2014); She Did It Anyway (ITWOW International, 2014); Ekphrastia Gone Wild (Ain't Got No Press, 2013); Journey (Eden Waters Press, 2009); poem, home (Paper Kite Press, 2009)
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