Margaret Coombs

I really wanted a poem in the “Prayers for the Planet” issue of Young Ravens Literary Review.   Yet though I played around with the idea for several weeks, nothing formed.  Then one day in April, Bob and I took our usual walk to Manitou Park and my prayer for inspiration was answered. Many thanks…

I’m very pleased that my poem, “Newcomer,” is in the June 2017 issue of Snapdragon:  A Journal of Art & Healing.  The theme of the issue is Surrender.  It’s an honor to be represented in this journal, which is dedicated to the notion of creativity as a healing art. My thanks to editors Cyndi Briggs…

Thanks to editor Zvi A. Sesling, two poems of mine are in the Spring Issue of Muddy River Poetry Review.  You can read them here:  http://muddyriverpoetryreview.com/  Zvi is also the Poet Laureate of the city of Brookline, Massachusetts.  I’m honored that he selected my poems for his journal.  And I love its title. I am…

Charles Portolano, editor of The Avocet, has kindly included my poem, “The Lenten Rose” in The Weekly Avocet number 229.  The Avocet is completely devoted to poetry about nature. I wrote “The Lenten Rose” during NaPoWriMo 2016.  That April was a colder, wetter one than April in 2017.  I love these flowers, which I first…

Have not been revising or submitting this month.  Just scratching out 30 poems in 30 days.  Will try to resist the temptation of posting any of them here.  Nothing works without multiple revisions.  It’s all so awkward. In explanation of the post title, I think I’m an outsider poet.  No B.F.A. or M.F.A. or D.F.A. …