Margaret Coombs

It is with mingled hope and trepidation that I submit two poems to an unnamed outlet. Submit means to offer up and that I do. Submitting material is part of writing. Rejection is part of writing. I take this step, again, as I have before, and claim myself as writer. The trepidation is that there…

Today I polished two poems written a few months back and intend to submit them for publication. I took a walk and found inspiration. Upon return home, I wrote one line, then struggled to write another. I failed at that second line, but at least I honored my creative voice with the first. Tomorrow is…

I have two poems published in WhitmanthologyWhitman’s Civil War–Writing and Imaging Loss, Death, and Disaster.  They are “A Close Call” and “Borderland Vision.”  The book was created from poems written in a class taught by Christopher Merrill in the International Writers Program. Though the themes were of loss and death, we also explored hope. Downloadable or…

Pleased to be published in Sick Lit Magazine.  My thanks to editor, Kelly Coody! Sick Lit Magazine 9-21-16

Thank you, Eric Jepsen, for publishing my poem in Quatrain.fish.