Margaret Coombs

It’s wonderful to find a journal that appreciates the sestina form.  I’m thrilled that “October Reunion” found a home at Blognostics.

Glad to have my poem, “Thank You, Stormy” published by James Penha for the Newest Verse News. (Dec. 3, 2018) https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2018/12/thank-you-stormy.html

There’s something mindful and rewarding about folding paper into an origami book. And if that paper becomes a micro-chapbook of your own poetry…it’s a profound joy. Announcing “Rocking Chair Abstract” by Peggy Turnbull. Please download it–FREE–here. Just look for the title under my picture.

One of the problems I ran into when writing about the story of the U.S.S. Lincoln was the missing element of surprise.  My poems followed the facts I had collected from several eyewitness accounts.  This took away from the joy of writing.  There were no twists, no turns.  It was hard to enter the characters’…

It’s been several months since I determined to write poems about the 1918 sinking of the U.S.S. President Lincoln using eyewitness accounts as source material.  I was inspired by Diane Gilliam Fisher’s Kettle Bottom, a powerful account of the West Virginia Mine Wars told in several distinctive voices.  It’s one of my favorite books of…