Margaret Coombs

This event is always a favorite. Poets published in The Solitary Plover will read a poem from the Winter 2025 issue and share a favorite poem by the great Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker.

I am thrilled to have a poem published by Silver Birch Press, an online poetry journal that offers its readers consistently enjoyable poems every day. My poem is Tactile, part of the My Favorite Things series.

It was an honor and my good fortune to be interviewed by Jeffrey Charles McAndrew, the Poet Laureate of North Fond du Lac on January 26, 2025 (posted on YouTube on February 1). We discussed poetry, inspiration, processes, influences, and poets. Jeffrey is an accomplished interviewer and “radio man.” We were complete strangers to one…