Margaret Coombs

Today I learned that three poems of mine are being published today by the Communicators League.  These include:  “Where My Prayers Go,” “The Winter I Lived in a Basement,” and “Coloring Within the Lines.”  My sincere thanks to editor Janet Olabisi for selecting them.

A poem I wrote the day after the election was published today as part of an anti-inauguration collection by Anti-Heroin Chic.  My sincere thanks go to editor James Diaz for creating this venue for poets on this occasion.

“Winter Haiku” was published in the Weekly Avocet, #214.  My thanks to the editor, Charles Portolano.  The title refers to a series of five haiku about winter.  The Weekly Avocet is not available online.

I’m aiming for 100 rejections in 2017. I already have five, so if I need to move the target up to 200 or even 3000, well, I will. And I vow to market my poems in a thoughtful way. I won’t deliberately select elite publications just to inflate my numbers. Nor will I deliberately misread…

I wrote multiple drafts of a poem, but something was wrong with it. I workshopped it with a group of U of Iowa International Writing Program students and no one could identify what was wrong. Today is the second day of a two day snowstorm. It’s hovering at zero and there’s wind and fine particles…