Mary Pinard
- Professor
Academic Division: Arts & Humanities
Academic Degrees
- MFA, Vermont College of Norwich University
- MA, University of Chicago
- BA, Saint Mary's College
Academic Interest / Expertise
Contemporary American Poetry; Writing PedagogyAwards & Honors
- 2023 — Mass Poetry Community Award, Mass Poetry Organization
- 2021 — Ex Ophidia Press Poetry Book Prize, Ex Ophidia Press
- 2020 — Nominated: Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses, Publisher: Bill Henderson
- 2017 — Kaplan Sustainability Award, Babson College
- 2017 — Finalist: 2017 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, Marsh Hawk Press
- 2017 — Semi-Finalist: The Washington Prize, The Word Works
- 2017 — Honorable Mention: "Late in the Season, Widow Gardening" , 2017 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry: Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation
- 2016 — Semi-Finalist, "Widow With Extra Doors," Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Nimrod International Journal
- 2014 — Changemaker Award, Lewis Institute
- 2013 — Carpenter Prize, Babson College
- 2011 — Finalist, Joy Harjo Poetry Contest, Cutthroat: A Journal for the Arts
- 2009 — Finalist, Joy Harjo Poetry Contest, Cutthroat: A Journal for the Arts
- 2009 — Finalist, Guy Owen Prize Contest, The Southern Review, literary journal
- 2009 — W.B. Yeats Society of New York Poetry Competition, Honorable Mention, W.B. Yeats Society of New York
- 2009 — Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award, Babson College
- 2009 — Finalist, Brittingham and Pollak Prize in Poetry, for Loess, University of Wisconsin Press
- 2007 — Finalist, Morton Marr Poetry Prize for poems in traditional form, The Southwest Review
- 2007 — Finalist, Cleveland State University First Book Prize, Cleveland State University
- 2006 — Finalist, 2006 River Styx International Poetry Contest
- 2006 — Semi-finalist, 2006 Kinereth Ginsler Award, for Loess, Alice James Books
- 2006 — Semi-finalist, 2006 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award Competition for Loess
- 2005 — Finalist, 2005 Alice James Books New England/New York/Competition for Loess
- 2005 — Finalist, 2005 Crab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry
- 2005 — Finalist, 2005 Crab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry
- 2004 — Finalist, 2004 Crab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry
- 2004 — Nominee, Pushcart Prize XXIX
- 2003 — Finalist, 2003 Crab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry
- 2003 — Semi-Finalist, University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series Contest
- 2002 — Finalist, 2002 Crab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry
- 2001 — Semi-Finalist, 2000 Crab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry
- 2001 — Finalist, 2001 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry Competition
- 2000 — Notable Essay of 2000, Robert Atwan, series editor, The Best American Essays 2001. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 313
- 1998 — First Prize, The Nebraska Review Award in Poetry
- 1998 — First Prize: Emily Dickinson Award in Poetry, Universities West Press
- 1997 — Finalist, “New Issues Press Poetry Series”
- 1996 — Recipient, “Women Who Make a Difference” Award, Babson College,
- 1996 — Semi-Finalist, “Discovery”/The Nation contest for poetry, New York, NY
- 1995 — Karen Chandor Term Chair, Babson College
- 1994 — Semi-Finalist, “Discovery”/The Nation contest for poetry, New York, NY
- 1994 — Finalist: 1994 Dorothy Churchill Cappon Essay Prize, New Letters Literary Awards
- 1993 — Second Place Winner, 1993 Writers at Work Fellowship Competition
- 1992 — Finalist: 1992 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, for Augury, University of Wisconsin Press
- 1992 — Finalist: 1992 New Letters Poetry Prize, New Letters Literary Awards, Kansas City, MO.
- 1992 — Second Prize Winner: Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition for 1992, for “Medium.” , North Carolina Writers’ Network International Poetry Competition
Courses
Degree Courses 2025
- LIT 4604 DOCUMENTARY POETRY: ENGAGING REALITY
- SES 2000 SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Degree Courses 2024
- LIT 4689 POETIC ELEGY
- SES 2000 SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
- ENG 4604 WRITING POETRY
Degree Courses 2023
- LTA 2030 PLACE AND LANDSCAPE IN LITERATURE
- LIT 4604 DOCUMENTARY POETRY: ENGAGING REALITY
- SES 2000 SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Publications
Journal Articles
- Wynstra, C.B., Pinard, M.C. (2023). The Heart/Roots Project and a Pandemic Pivot. Journal of American Drama and Theater. CUNY Graduate Center. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2009). Voice(s) of the Poet-Gardner: Alice Oswald and poetry of Acoustic Encounter. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory-Special Issue on Ecopoetics. Penn State.
Books
- Pinard, M.C. (2022). Ghost Heart: Ghost Heart. Page: 100 pages. Ex Ophidia Press. link
- Pinard, M.C. (in press). Ghost Heart: "Ghost Heart" (book of original poems). Ex Ophidia Press.
- Pinard, M.C. (2014). Portal. Salmon Poetry.
Cases and Teaching Notes
- Pinard, M.C. (2001). Student Guide: Babson First-Year Rhetoric Program, Academic Year 2001-2002.
- Pinard, M.C., O'Brien Hallstein, L., Nixon, C. (2000). Student Guide: Babson First-Year Rhetoric Program and Yearlong Experience, 2000-2001.
Book Chapters
- Pinard, M.C. (2010). Hep: Stepping on My Brother's Head and Other Secret Your English Professor Never Told You: A College Reader. Heinemann-Boyton/Cook.
- Pinard, M. (2008). “Niedecker’s Grammar of Flooding”: Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Politics of Place. University of Iowa Press . link
- Pinard, M.C. (2006). “Gender and the U.S. Online Literary Scene" : proceedings for the Gender & Global Digital Divide session at the Women’s Worlds 2005: 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women.
- Pinard, M.C. (2006). “Haunted by Waters: The River in American Films of the West,”: The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns: Ecocriticism in an American Film Genre. Page: 127-140. University of Utah Press.
- Pinard, M.C. (2005). “A New Strategy for Improving Corporate Creativity”: Strategy and Leadership with Robert J. Allio.
- Pinard, M.C. (2005). “Overlappings: Lorine Niedecker and René Char: Exploring the Unlikely Likelihood”: Court Green (special dossier feature on Lorine Niedecker).
- Pinard, M.C. (2004). “(Re) Educating for Leadership: How the Arts Can Improve Business” : Arts and Business, UK, with Ted Buswick and Alastair Creamer.
- Pinard, M.C. (2002). “The Politics of Writing Centers”: The Journal of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Vol: 54, Issue: 1, Page: 156-158.
- Pinard, M.C. (2001). “Lorine Niedecker: Environment and a Grammar of Flooding” : ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.
- Pinard, M.C. (2000). “Willfulness and Wild Space: A Geography of Motherlessness” : South Dakota Review.
- Pinard, M.C. (1999). “Surviving the Honeymoon: Bliss and Anxiety in a WPA’s First Year, or Appreciating the Plate Twirler’s Art” : Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, and Troubadours: Writing Administrators Tell Their Stories. Heinemann.
- Pinard, M.C. (1996). “The Beginnings of Creativity” : The Regional Review. Vol: 6. Federal Reserve Bank.
- Pinard, M.C. (1993). “Paean to Place: The Poetry of Lorine Niedecker” : Poetry East. Issue: 35, Page: 77-82.
- Pinard, M.C. (1990). “Christopher Latham Sholes, The Typewriter, and Women’s Economic Emancipation: A Reading of an Image”: Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy. Issue: 23, Page: 22-35.
- Pinard, M.C. (1988). “Finding the Hinge: Subversive Pedagogy”: Critical Exchange. Issue: 25, Page: 8-17.
- Pinard, M.C. (1986). “Time In and Out of Solitude in One Hundred Years of Solitude”: Critical Perspectives on Gabriel Garcia Marquez. University of Nebraska Press.
- Pinard, M.C. (1983). Reader’s Guide to Shakespeare, “Shakespeare V,” Vol. 89: Great Books of the Western World. Franklin Publishing Company.
- Pinard, M.C. (1982). Reader’s Guide to Shakespeare, “Shakespeare VI,” Vol. 83: Great Books of the Western World. Franklin Publishing Company.
- Pinard, M.C. (1981). Reader’s Guide to Chaucer, “Troilus and Cressida,” Vol. 77: Great Books of the Western World. : Franklin Publishing Company.
- Pinard, M.C. (1980). Reader’s Guide to Chaucer, “The Canterbury Tales I and II,” Vols. 49-50: Great Books of the Western World. Franklin Publishing Company.
- Pinard, M.C. (1980). “Editorial Introduction,” Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”: The Great Ideas Today, 1980.. Page: 399-402. Encyclopedia Britannica.
Working Papers
- Pinard, M.C. (1989). “Representations of the American Secretary”. Bunting Institute, Radcliffe Research and Study Center.
Other
- Pinard, M.C. (2022). Fellow Traveler: Western Conifer Seed Bug: Refuge: Plein Air Poem Anthology. Page: 1. Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2022). Palimpsest: Ecotone. Issue: No. 32, Page: 2. Ecotone. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2022). Heart/Roots: Wabaunsee County: A Play in Two Acts: Heart/Roots: Wabaunsee County. Page: 40 pages. Volland Press. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2021). "Cranes and Bison: Re-Volutions": If Bison Can Dream: Zhang Hongtu. Tina Keng Gallery.
- Pinard, M.C. (2021). "Diesel," "Gone in Search," and "So when I saw for the first time": Moving Images: Poetry Inspired by Cinema.
- Pinard, M.C. (in press). "Fellow Traveller: Western Conifer Seed Bug". Old Frog Pond Farm Studio.
- Pinard, M.C. (2021). "Mourning Dove": Modern Music of New Singers: 21st-Century American Art Songs--Soprano, Vol. 2. Northa Star Music, LLC.
- Pinard, M.C. (2021). "Seagull You Lull Me": Modern Music for New Singers: 21st Century American Art Songs--Mezzo-Soprano, Vol. 2. North Star Music, LLC.
- Pinard, M.C. (2020). "Fallen Tree": Speaking of Sculpture: Ekphrastic Poetry & Outdoor Sculpture.
- Pinard, M.C. (2019). "Even After All": Salamander (literary journal).
- Pinard, M.C. (2019). "Widow Sugaring for Moths": Salamander.
- Pinard, M.C. (2019). "Note to a Hingeless Coral Pink Door Floating in the Woods": Speaking of Sculpture: Ekphrastic Poetry & Outdoor Sculpture (juried chapbook).
- Pinard, M.C. (2019). "Somehow Forgotten": Southern Poetry Review (literary journal).
- Pinard, M.C. (2019). "Staying Loss": Tupelo Quarterly (online literary journal).
- Pinard, M. (2018). "Trails, Trailings at the Farm: Outside the Sculptor's Studio": Paths Tracks Trails: Plein Air Poetry 2018.
- Pinard, M. (2018). "Driving to the End of the Storm": Crab Orchard Review--Special Double Issue.
- Pinard, M. (2017). "In Praise of Parenthesis" and "Ode": Art on the Trails: Finding Solace in the Woods. Page: 2. The Tishman Review. link
- Pinard, M. (2017). "Spool": Memoir. Page: 1. Old Frog Pond Farm . link
- Pinard, M. (2017). "Late in the Season, Widow Gardening": Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation . Page: 1. Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation.
- Pinard, M.C. (2017). "How the Hogs Got There": saltftont: studies in human habit(at). Issue: 5, Page: 2. saltfront: studies in human habit(at). link
- Pinard, M.C. (2017). "Northern Mockingbird" and "Public Bath": Birdsong: Poems in Celebration of Birds. Foothills Publishing.
- Pinard, M.C. (2016). "Poet": Even The Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry. Page: 1. Salmon Poetry Ltd.. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2016). "Widow with Extra Doors": Nimrod International Journal 38th Literary Awards 38 Issue. Vol: 60, Issue: #1, Page: 1. University of Tulsa. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2016). "Turning Light": Splash: Plein Air Poetry. Vol: II, Page: 1. Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2016). "Cardinal," "Flamingo," "Meadowlark," "Vulture" and "Sandhill Cranes": Western Humanities Review. Vol: 70, Issue: #1, Page: 5. University of Utah, Department of English. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2016). "Bluffline, Loess Hills, Iowa": Down to the Dark River: Poems on the Mighty Mississippi. Page: 2. Louisiana Literature Press. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2015). "Vulture": Poem of the Month, Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio. Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio. link
- Pinard, M.C. (2015). "Underground Fence": Poem of the Moment, MASS Poetry. MASS Poetry. link
- Pinard, M. (2015). "Direct Address": Dead in Good Company: A Celebration of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Page: 266-267. Ziggy Owl Press.
- Pinard, M.C. (2013). "Fragment House": Ocean State Review. Issue: Summer. University of Rhode Island.
- Pinard, M.C. (2013). "Gone in Search": Salamander. Vol: 18, Issue: 2, Page: 111. Suffolk University English Department.
- Pinard, M.C. (2010). Surprising Reversals: Working With and Against Preference: The Best of the AWP Pedagogy Papers 2010. The Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
- Pinard, M.C. (2010). "Song Net for an Estuary": The Iowa Review. Vol: 40, Issue: 3. University of Iowa Press.
- Pinard, M.C. (2009). "Crossties": The Southern Review.
- Pinard, M.C. (2009). Antietam Primer: Boston Review.
- Pinard, M.C. (2009). "The Weight of the Dislodged" and "Theory of Disappearance": Prairie Schooner.
- Pinard, M.C. (2008). Piazza di Spagna 26: Salamander.
- Pinard, M.C. (2008). "Eavesdropping in a Boatyard, East Boston": Salamander.
- Pinard, M.C. (2007). "Reading the Summer 2005 Anthropologie Catalogue," New Politics, Spring 2007.
- Pinard, M.C. (2007). "Blossom Running With a Rake" : Poetry East, #59.
- Pinard, M.C. (2002). "Habits of Rcollection, " "The Other Side." and "Respirations". Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry.
- Pinard, M.C. (1984). A selection from over thirty “Women’s Voices” articles : Yellow Springs News and The Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1984). “A Morning in November” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1984). “Look at Women in History” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1984). “Two Women Named Mary” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1983). A selection from over thirty “Women’s Voices” articles : Yellow Springs News and The Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1983). “Into the Darkest Night” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1982). A selection from over thirty “Women’s Voices” articles : Yellow Springs News and The Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1982). “Parakeets, Fairy Tales and Freedom” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1982). “Why Do I Hate Math?” : Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1981). A selection from over thirty “Women’s Voices” articles : Yellow Springs News and The Xenia Daily Gazette.
- Pinard, M.C. (1981). “An Interview with Adrienne Kennedy”: Yellow Springs News.
- Pinard, M.C. (1981). “The First Women Writer in the English Language”: Yellow Springs News.
- Pinard, M.C. (1981). “Women at the World’s Fair: A Forgotten Feminist Event”: Yellow Springs News.
Articles - Circular or newsletter (e.g., Babson Insight)
- Pinard, M.C., O'Brien Hallstein, L. (2000). “What Does It Mean to be Articulate?”: Babson Bulletin.
Presentations
Department & College Wide Services
- Senate-appointed Task Force: "Review of Bias Incident Response Protocols as it Pertains to Faculty," with Cheryl Kirschner and Ben Luippold (Fall 2018 - Spring 2019)