Author: Margaret Coombs

I’ve received 14 rejections so far in 2017 and am aiming for 100.  Good for me! The more poems I submit, the better I understand the marketplace. Edited to add:  I’m a bit uncertain about having used the word “marketplace” above.  In reality, I learn and understand poetry by submitting and then evaluating rejections against…

I am grateful to Roderick Bates, the editor of Rat’s Ass Review, who will publish my poem “Patriot” in a collection commemorating the first one hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency.  The anthology is called Such an Ugly Time.  I am proud that my poem will be included in it.

Very happy that my poem, Polka Band Surprise, will be included in the 2018 Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar, published by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.  Many thanks to editors Richard Swansonand Ed Werstein. 

Looking forward to having two poems, “Escarpment” and “Changing Weather,” appear in the Muddy River Poetry Review.  I am grateful to the publisher, Zvi A. Sesling, for this opportunity.  I will post the link when it becomes available.

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