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Mary Pinard is Professor of English at Babson College. She earned a B.A. in English and Theatre from Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, IN), an M.A. in English from University of Chicago, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Vermont College. Professor Pinard's poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals—including The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Georgia Review—and she has been the recipient of several national awards for her poetry. Portal, her collection of poems, was published in 2014 by Salmon Press (Ireland). Her essays on poetics and poets, including Alice Oswald and Lorine Niedecker, have been published in critical anthologies and scholarly journals. More information about her poetry, public readings, and publications can be found at www.marypinard.com. As a member of the Arts and Humanities Division, Professor Pinard teaches courses in foundation humanities, literature, and poetry. She has also served in a range of administrative positions at Babson, including as Director of the Undergraduate Rhetoric Program, Coordinator of the Creativity Stream in the MBA Program, Writing Center Director, and Chair of Arts and Humanities.

MFA, Vermont College of Norwich University
MA, University of Chicago
BA, Saint Mary's College

Contemporary American Poetry; Writing Pedagogy

2024 — Faculty Scholarship Award for Multi-Dimensional Research, Babson College
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

Degree Courses 2025
- LTA 2030 PLACE AND LANDSCAPE IN LITERATURE
- ENG 4604 WRITING POETRY
- 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

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. (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. (2027). Fellow Traveler: Cape Cod to Nova Scotia: Art, Ecology, Poetry of the Gulf of Maine. Storey Books.
Pinard, M.C. (2027). Of Sparrows: Cape Cod to Nova Scotia: Art, Ecology, Poetry of the Gulf of Maine. Storey Books.
Pinard, M.C. (2024). (Old) Grief: Ecotone: Reimagining Place--The Labor Issue. Ecotone at U. of North Carolina.
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.

Creative Assignments and Assessments. McCarthy, J. Pinard, M. CELT Lunch & Learn Workshop, Babson Park, MA (2024)
Transdisciplinary Systems Thinking: Exploring the Uncommon Through the Commonplace Book Rodgers, V. Pinard, M. Lilly Conference on Evidence-based Teaching and Learning, Austin, TX (2023)
Advice for Untenured but Tenure Track Faculty on Tenure and Promotion at Babson College Nersessian, D. Getchell, K. Pinard, M. Jones, K. Rademacher, V. Babson College Research Day, Wellesley, MA (2023)
Panel: Tenure & Promotion at Babson College (with other Babson faculty) Pinard, M. Babson Faculty Research Day, Babson College (2023)
"Seer :: Pentaptych" Pinard, M. Virtual: Babson and F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Arts Showcase, Virtual (on a Babson Platform) (2020)
"Fallen Tree" Pinard, M. Virtual Plein Air Poetry Reading, Virtual (2020)
Selection of poems Pinard, M. Waterline Showcase, Glavin Chapel, Babson College (2020)
The Poetics of Elegy: Mourning & (Re)Imagining a Diminishing Environment" Pinard, M. American Literature Association (ALA) Symposium, on American Poetry: American Elegy, Now, Washington, D.C. (2020)
Synthesis as a Tool for Research and Scholarship: A Cross-Disciplinary Examination Carey, J. Goldstein, M. Karst, N. Pinard, M. Babson Research Day, Babson College (2020)
"Research for a Long Poem about Prairies: Military History, Botany, and Photography” Goldstein, M. Karst, N. Carey, J. Pinard, M. Babson Faculty Research Day, Babson College (2020)
Selection of poems Pinard, M. Robert J. Carr Visiting Author Series, U. of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, English Department, U. of Illinois (2020)
New poems Pinard, M. Waterline Showcase Reading, Glavin Chapel, Babson College, Glavin Chapel, Babson College (2019)
"Note to a Hingeless Coral Pink Door Floating in the Woods" Pinard, M. Plein Air Poetry Reading, Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio, Harvard, MA, Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio (2019)
Ekphrastic poems on the work of painter, Zhang Hongtu Pinard, M. Poetry Reading, The Volland Store, Alma, KS, The Volland Store, Alma, Kansas (2019)
New Poems Pinard, M. Sculpture Exhibit & Opening Artist Reception & Poetry Reading, Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio, Harvard, MA, Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio, Harvard, MA (2019)
New poems Pinard, M. Collected Poets Series, Mocha Maya's Cafe, Shelburne Falls, MA, Mocha Maya's Cafe, Shelbourne Falls, MA (2019)
New poems Pinard, M. Waterline Showcase Reading, Glavin Chapel, Babson College, Glavin Chapel, Babson College (2019)
"Enchantment and Disenchantment"--faculty panelist/repsondent Pinard, M. Emergent World Thought, Babson College (2018)
Selection of sonnets Pinard, M. Waterline Showcase Reading, Babson College/Glavin Chapel (2018)
"Trails, Trailings at the Farm: Outside the Sculptor's Studio" Pinard, M. Plein Air Poetry Reading, Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio, Harvard, MA (2018)
"Widow's Weeds, or Wildflowers for Mary" with Andrea Thompson Pinard, M. , . Breath and Matter: Poet/Sculptor Collaborations, Boston Sculptors Gallery (2018)
"Extending Ekphrasis" Pinard, M. Design Day/Poetry Reading/Poetry Workshop, Kansas State University (2018)
"Exploring Ekphrasis" Pinard, M. Poetry Reading & Talk on poetics, Alma, KS (2018)
On the Wing: A Celebration in Words and Music Pinard, M. On the Wing: A Celebration in Words and Music, Babson College, Sorenson Theatre (2018)
Corona: San Juan Island, Washington Pinard, M. Babson Research Day, Babson College (2018)
Elegy in Numbers & others Pinard, M. Waterline Showcase Reading, Glavin Chapel, Babson College (2017)
In Praise of Parenthesis, and Ode Pinard, M. Art on the Trails: Finding Solace in the Woods, Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA (2017)
Spool Pinard, M. Plein Air Poetry Reading, Harvard, MA (2017)
Poetry in the Flint Hills Pinard, M. Poet-in-Residence Reading & Workshop, Alma, KS (2017)
Poetry Reading Pinard, M. 82 Main Street Poetry Series, Peabody Library, Peabody Library (2017)
"Asleep All Day," for amplified piano trio and digital studio in surround sound based on one of my poems, "Grief, for a long time sound" Pinard, M. BOW Faculty in Concert with Two World Premieres, Olin College of Engineering (2017)
"Pubic Bath" and "Northern Mockingbird" Pinard, M. Poetry Reading--Poems from Birdsong: Poems in Celebration of birds, Acton, MA (2017)
Selection of poems Pinard, M. Waterline Showcase Reading, Glavin Chapel, Babson College (2016)
Untitled poem Pinard, M. Breaking Prairie: Sculpture by Andrea Thompson, Poetry by Mary Pinard, Hollister Gallery, Babson College (2016)
Turning Light Pinard, M. Plein Air Poetry Reading, Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio (2016)
Sound, Movement, and Fiber: Prairie Appreciation, Restoration, and Inspiration through the Works of Contemporary Artists Pinard, M. 24th Annual North American Prairie Conference, Illinois State University, Normal, IL (2016)
On the Wing: A Celebration in Words and Music Pinard, M. Linden Ponds Performance Series , Derby Performing Arts Center (2016)
On the Wing: A Celebration in Words and Music Pinard, M. North Hill Performance Series , North Hill Senior Residence, Needham, MA (2016)
Poetry Reading from Portal, by Mary Pinard Pinard, M. West Roxbury Public Library Reading Series, West Roxbury Public Library, West Roxbury, MA (2016)
Understory: Paintings by Melissa Shaak Pinard, M. Gallery Opening, Cambridge Health Associates, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge Health Associates Gallery, Cambridge, MA (2016)
Visting Writer: Mary Pinard Pinard, M. St. Mary's College Visiting Writer Program, South Bend, IN (2016)
On the Wing: A Celebration in Words and Music Pinard, M. Windows to the Wild: New Hampshire PBS, Portsmouth, NH (2016)
On the Wing: A Celebration of Birds in Words and Music Pinard, M. New Hampshire Public Television taping of On the Wing: A Celebration of Birds in Words and Music, Portsmouth, NH (2015)
Poetry Reading & Meeting with Graduate Students Pinard, M. University of Utah Visiting Writer Series, Salt Lake City, UT (2015)
Getting Inspired, Staying Inspired Pinard, M. Amherst Poetry Festival, Amherst, MA (2015)
The Teacher Within Pinard, M. CELT Teacher's Toolbox Workshop, Glavin Chapel (2015)
Waterline Showcase Reading--Featuring Babson College Creative Writing Faculty Pinard, M. Waterline Showcase Reading, Babson College, Glavin Chapel (2015)
Contours: Plein Air Poetry Walk and Reading Pinard, M. En Plein Air Poetry Walk and Reading, Harvard, MA (2015)
Poetry Reading Pinard, M. Plymouth Arts Center, 48th Annual Art Show & Reading, Plymouth, MA (2015)
Advocacy in Curriculum Pinard, M. Megan, C. Vermont College Hi-Res Conference, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT (2015)
Poetry Reading Pinard, M. Wayland Public Library Reading Series, Wayland, MA (2015)
Poetry Reading Pinard, M. Lee Public Library Reading Series, Lee, MA (2015)
Poetry Reading Pinard, M. The Bookstore & Get Lit Wine & Books Reading Series, Lenox, MA (2015)
Poetry Reading Pinard, M. Brewster Ladies Library Poetry Series, Brewster, MA (2015)
Poetry Reading Pinard, M. Andover Bookstore Poetry Reading Series , Andover, MA (2015)
On the Wing: A Celebration of Birds in Words and Music Pinard, M. Boston Athenaeum Presentation Series, Boston, MA (2015)
Poetry Reading Pinard, M. Gloucester Writers Poetry Series, Gloucester, MA (2015)
Writing Sound to Sound Pinard, M. , . Mass Poetry Festival , Salem, MA (2015)
Poetry Reading Pinard, M. Book Ends Bookstore Poetry Reading & Book Signing, Winchester, MA (2015)
Poetry Reading Pinard, M. Porter Square Poetry Reading Series, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA (2015)
Poetry and the Experience of Nature Pinard, M. , . Joppa Flats Poetry Reading Series, Joppa Flats Education Center, Newburyport, MA (2015)
On the Wing: A Celebration of Birds in Words and Music Pinard, M. Goldenrod Foundation, Goldenrod Foundation, Plymouth, MA (2015)
Pinard, M. Leonard, M. Waterline Reading Series, Wellesley, MA (2014)
Lineage Pinard, M. Around the Pond and Through the Woods, Harvard, MA (2014)
Refugia: Poems in Search of the Prairie Pinard, M. Interdisciplinary Scholarship in Land Use and Ethics, 3rd Annual Symposium, Huntington Wildlife Forest, NY (2014)
On the Wing: A Celebration of Birds in Words and Music Pinard, M. , Cambridge, MA (2014)
Poetry reading: a selection from newly published Portal Pinard, M. Waterline Reading Series, Wellesley, MA (2014)
Poetry reading and book launch for Portal Pinard, M. Associated Writing Programs (AWP) National Conference, Seattle, WA (2014)
Introduction and moderation of dicussion Pinard, M. European Voices – A Reading and Conversation with British Poet Alice Oswald, Boston, MA (2014)
On the Wing: A Celebration of Birds in Words and Music Pinard, M. , Andover, MA (2014)
On the Wing: A Celebration of Birds in Words and Music Pinard, M. , Brunswick, ME (2014)
On the Wing: A Celebration of Birds in Words and Music Pinard, M. , Wellesley, MA (2014)
On the Wing: A Celebration of Birds in Words and Music Pinard, M. , Boston, MA (2014)
Our Side of the Pond: A Morning of Salmon Poets Pinard, M. Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA (2013)
Limits, Energy, and Migration: The Art of Weaving as (Prairie) Restoration and Metaphor in the Work of Sheila Hicks Pinard, M. The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, Lawrence, KS (2013)
Appearances Pinard, M. Provincetown Green Arts Festival, Provincetown, MA (2013)
Pinard, M. O'Donoghue, M. Waterline Reading Series, (2013)
'Refugia': Poems in Search of the Prairie Pinard, M. BFRF Research Chat, Wellesley, MA (2012)
Fragment House Pinard, M. Slocum River Project onsite installation, Hanover, NH (2012)
Keith Jacobshagen and Sheila Hicks: Two Nebraska Visual Artists in the Act of Artful Representation Pinard, M. 1862-2012: The Making of the Great Plains Conference, Lincoln, NE (2012)
Facing BlackfacE: Learning from Racism on a College Campus Swanson, E. Pinard, M. Second international Converence on Hate Studies, Spokane, WA (2011)
Artful Acts of (Prairie) Restoration: The Landscape Paintings of Keith Jacobshagen Pinard, M. North American Prairie Association Converence, Cedar Fall, IA (2010)
Surprising Reversals: Working with and Against Preference Pinard, M. Associated Writing Program Converence, Denver, CO (2010)
Stories of Lo(e)ss: Reading the Loess Hills Pinard, M. John R. Milton Writing Conference: Writing About the American West, Vermillion, South Dakota (2009)
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Bear Butte: Sacred Destinations in the American Landscape Platt, K. Pinard, M. Pilgrimage Today, Turku, Finland (2009)
Uplift and Erosion: The Nature of bear Butte Ever Made and Remade Pinard, M. Platt, K. The Donner Institutue 20th Conference, Turku, Finland (2009)
An Archipelago of Song: The Sonnet redouble Pinard, M. The Association for the Study of Literature and the Envrionment, Victoria, B.C., Canada (2009)
Voice(s) of the Poet-Gardener: Alice Oswald’s Poems of Acoustic Encounter Pinard, M. The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Off-Year Symposium: The Keyboard in the Garden, Doylestown, PA (2008)
“Broken Prayer for the Book-Length Sonnet Sequence: Reinvention and Expansion in Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Kyrie” Pinard, M. Women’s Voices in Poetry Panel, Calgary, Alberta (2007)
attendee Pinard, M. “Third International Conference on Rivers and Civilization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Major River Basins” , La Crosse, WI (2006)
“Gender and the U.S. Online Literary Scene” Pinard, M. Gender & Global Digital Divide session, Seoul, Korea (2005)
“Legacy: A Celebration of James Welch” Pinard, M. The 7th Annual Inquiry of Richard Hugo , Seattle, WA (2004)
“René Char and Lorine Niedecker in the1940s: Transition and Transformation” Pinard, M. National Poetry Foundation Poetries of the 1940s Conference, Orono, ME (2004)
“Opening the Interiors: Searching for the Tugboat’s Mystique” Pinard, M. Third Nature and Environmental College and University Educators Writers’ Conference/Workshop in honor of Rachel Carson , Booth Bay, ME (2004)
“Weird MBA Science” Pinard, M. Graduate Management Council and MBA Roundtable 2004 MBA Leadership Program, Newport Beach, CA (2004)
“Lorine Niedecker: Environment and a Grammar of Flooding” Pinard, M. The Lorine Niedecker Centenary Celebration and National Conference, Milwaukee, WI (2003)
“’Tacking in Fog’: Notes on Philip Booth’s Maine Poems” Pinard, M. Biennial Conference of The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Boston University (2003)
“Haunted by Waters: The River in American Films of the West” Pinard, M. The American West in Film, Television, and History 2002 Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO (2002)
“Walt Whitman and C.K. Williams: Intermingling Urban Landscapes and Nature A Century Apart” Pinard, M. ASLE 4th Biennial Conference, Flagstaff, AZ (2001)
“The River as Poem, Landscape, and Identity in Poems by Lorine Niedecker and René Char” Pinard, M. Anthropological Association of Ireland Spring Conference 2001: Landscapes of Memory and Desire, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2001)
“Patricia Hampl’s ‘Resort’: Seminal Poetic Sequence” Pinard, M. The Fourth Annual Flint Hills Literary Festival, Manhattan, KS (2000)
“Barry Lopez: Writing From the Land as a Poet of Accidental Spaces” Pinard, M. The Second Annual Flint Hills Literary Festival, Writing From the Land, Manhattan, KS (1998)
“Status of FIPSE Grant for Implementing a Writing Across the Business Disciplines Program at Babson College" Pinard, M. Program Officer Visit and FIPSE Fall Workshop, Coreapolis, PA (1997)
“Creativity and the MBA: A New Approach to Management Education” Pinard, M. The Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Cleveland, Ohio (1997)
“Seaming Across the WAC Divide: Peer Consultants in Writing at a Business College” Pinard, M. Conference on College Composition & Communication, Phoenix, Arizona (1997)
“Walking the Rim: The WPA as Discipline-Based Teacher” Pinard, M. Writing Program Administrators Conference, Oxford, OH (1996)
“Creativity Required: Babson’s Creativity Module” Pinard, M. Corporate Design Foundation Sixth Annual Design Leadership Symposium, Chicago, IL (1996)
“'Deviance, Defiance, and Adventure’: Giving Voice to Business Students’ Creativity through the Sestina--Unlikely Point of Departure” Pinard, M. Conference on College Composition & Communication, Milwaukee, WI (1996)
“Surviving the Honeymoon: A WPA’s First Year and The Art of Plate-Twirling” Pinard, M. Writing Program Administrators Conference, Bellingham, WA (1995)
“Compelling Texts: Dreams in the Composition Classroom” Pinard, M. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Washington, D.C. (1995)

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)

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