Poetry

Here are poems selected by editors for publication in their fine journals. My thanks to them, and for what they do to promote poetry. I am slowly reinserting the links lost when I transferred this page from blogger. Run your mouse over poem titles; active links will show as red text (depending upon your browser).

• Artemis at the University. Sad Girls Club Blog. February 27, 2023. (forthcoming)
• Found By Instinct. Your Daily Poem. March 24, 2023. (forthcoming)
• Three Poems by Margaret Coombs (The Panther, The Visitor, Trance Song). Lothlorien Poetry Journal. December 8, 2022.
• Laughing Buddha. Amethyst Review. November 24, 2022.
• The World That Awaits. Offerings: A Spiritual Poetry Anthology from Tiferet Journal. 2022.
• In Manitowoc, March 2021, and Ghazal for an Abandoned Red Truck. Art is Poetry is Art. Lakeshore Artists Guild. Exhibit June 1-August 31, 2022 at Manitowoc Public Library.
• Conifers in a Storm, The Guardian Hawk, and After Five Years of Planning. Solitary Plover. Summer 2022.
• Wind Spirits. Wisconsin Poets Calendar, 2023. Print.
• The Silence Inside. Amethyst Review. June 11, 2022.
• “Path of Stones.” Seven Poems. Medusa’s Kitchen. June 2, 2022.
• “A Morning in Mexico.” Mad Swirl. April 23, 2022.
• “Stars and Possibility.” Soul-Lit. Spring 2022.
• “Girl on the Cusp,” “At the Center of the World, At the Beginning of Time,” “The Fleeting.” Verse-Virtual. April 2022.
• “Eating Grapes,” Bramble. February 5, 2022.
• “Our Extravagant Plants,” Trouvaille Review. February 10, 2022.
• “The Responsibility of Good-Bye” and “The Post-Holiday House,” Verse-Virtual. February 2022.
• “Morning Bird Feeder,” Three Line Poetry. #58, January 2022. (available in print only)
• “Grateful,” Silver Birch Press. January 2, 2022.
• “In 1910, Mildred Watches Her Brother Row Into Lake Superior,” Barstow & Grand, 2021. Printed journal.
• “Ghazal for the Athens-Concord Town Social, West Virginia,” Your Daily Poem. August 11, 2021.
• “Border Crossing” and “The Adobe Wall,” Verse-Virtual. August 2021.
• “The Summer Garden” and “The Strawberry in the Sky,” Better Than Starbucks: Poetry for Children. Vol. vi no. iii. August 2021.
• “For a Night Without Stars or Moon,” Bramble. June 16, 2021.
• “The Way of the North, 1959.” The Main Street Rag. May 2021. Printed journal.
• “The Fifth Graders’ Rebellion,” Sanctuary Newsletter. May 2021. (reprint)
• “The Meanness Afoot,” The Raven Review. April 2021.
• “Highway 40 Rest Stop,” Tipton Poetry Review. Issue 48, Spring 2021. pp 40-41.
• “On the Edge,” Pangolin Review. April 2021. Issue 18–Part 3. (scroll alphabetically for Peggy)
• “The Prettiest City in Mexico,” MockingHeart Review. Vol. 6, issue 2, 2021.
• “Departures,” Mad Swirl. February 28, 2021.
• “The End, The Beginning,” Mad Swirl. January 1, 2021.
• “Romantic Youth,” Shot Glass Journal. January 2021. Issue #33.
• “Suddenly,” Right Hand Pointing. January 2021.
• “No Necklace for Me” and “Classified Ad, Mining Gazette, 1904.” Hummingbird XXX, no. 2. 2020. Printed journal.
• The River’s Gift. As It Ought to Be. November 18, 2020.
• “Kristallnacht, Again,” and “The Tenderness of an Airport.” Sanctuary, October 2020. (reprints)
• Night Ferry. As It Ought To Be. October 5, 2020.
• One Eye, Two Eyes, and Three Eyes. Mad Swirl. August 7, 2020.
• The Pink Lady’s Slipper. Poppy Road Review. August 4, 2020.
• The Fifth Graders’ Rebellion. Writing in a Woman’s Voice. July 29, 2020.
• Overloaded Garbage Truck. Quatrain.fish. July 26, 2020.
• When Summer Breathes. Your Daily Poem. July 19, 2020.
• When Mountains Shimmer. Bluepepper. June 24, 2020.
• “Western Dad” and “The Searcher at the Christian Retreat.” Anti-Heroin Chic. June 4, 2020.
• During the Pandemic, I Teach My Husband Yoga. Rats Ass Review. Summer 2020.
• Invisible Woman in a Northern City. Sheila-Na-Gig. Spring 2020, vol. 4.3.
• The Murmur. Your Daily Poem. May 3, 2020.
• Marriage Soup. Bramble. February 8, 2020.
• Midwest Different. Poetry Super Highway. February 8, 2020.

Publications from 2016-2019 are included below, organized alphabetically by poem title.

• “Baby Boomer, “ in Red Eft Review. May 9, 2019. https://redeftreview.blogspot.com/2019/05/baby-boomer-by-peggy-turnbull.html
• “Beach Vacation,” in Wisconsin Poets Calendar, 2020.
• “Blueberry,” in Nature Writing.  August 24, 2017.  https://naturewriting.com/blueberry/ and reprinted in Verse-Virtual, August 2019.

• “Buddha in the Auto Zone,” in Wisconsin Poets Calendar, 2019. 
• “Calm June Evening,” in Quatrain.fish.  July, 2016.  http://quatrain.fish/post/148250350500/peggy-turnbull
• “Changing Weather” and “Escarpment” in The Muddy River Poetry Review.  Issue 16.  Spring 2017.  http://www.muddyriverpoetryreview.com/Peggy%20Turnbull-1.pdf
• “Chihuahua Desert” in Contemporary Haibun Online. July 2019. http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/pages152/Turnbull_Chihuahua.html , also featured in “Random Praise by Bob Lucky,” http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/pages153/A_Lucky_RandomPraise.html

• “Christmas Bird Count,” in Poetry Quarterly. March, 2019.
• “A Close Call” and “Borderland Vision,” in Whitmanthology:  On Loss and Grief. pp. 120-121.   Lulu, 2016.  http://www.lulu.com/shop/various-authors/whitmanthology-on-loss-and-grief/ebook/product-22988681.html
• “Country Boy,” in One Sentence Poems.  December 26, 2017.
• “The Day She Decided to Stay” and “Flirtation” in Ristau.   2018.
• “Elegy for an ACT UP Warrior,” in I am Not a Silent Poet.  September 6, 2016.   https://iamnotasilentpoet.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/elegy-for-an-act-up-warrior-by-peggy-turnbull/    
• “Encounter,” in Verse-Virtual.  July 2017.  http://www.verse-virtual.com/peggy-turnbull-2017-july.html
• “Final Honors,” in Your Daily Poem. November 11, 2019. http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=3174
• “Forewarned,” in Eunoia Review.  March 27, 2017.  https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/forewarned/#comment-7206
•  “Friendships in a Small Town,” in Rats Ass Review. Special issue:  Love & Ensuing Madness. 2016.  http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=1070#Turnbull
• “Gift of the Autumn Forest,” in Mad Swirl. October 4, 2019. https://madswirl.com/poetry/2019/10/gift-of-the-autumn-forest/?fbclid=IwAR1L4bQXyH1QnAtkDuBgZ3hPpEArWqaHkBceBvl9gjjDt88uwuHI4Apm4s8
• “God’s Language” in Ancient Paths Online. October 17, 2019. https://www.skylarb.com/single-post/2019/10/17/Gods-Language (Pushcart nominated)
• “Graphology,” “Children Who Never Knew Him, and “The Heart Test” in Door Is A Jar. Summer 2019, pp. 56-58.
• “Highway T in the Kettle Moraine,” in Plum Tree Tavern.  December 31, 2017. https://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/2017/12/highway-t-in-kettle-moraine.html
• “The Hill Tribe of Women,” in MOON Magazine, August 2018.  http://moonmagazine.org/peggy-turnbull-hill-tribe-women-2018-08-06/
• “In the Back of a Truck Heading West,” in Rats Ass Review. Summer 2019. http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=3186#Turnbull
• “Jack Carlton, Fireman, First Class,” in Write Like You’re Alive: 2018. Zoetic Press: 2018. Page 76.
•  “Land” in Poetry Breakfast.  December 14, 2017.  https://poetrybreakfast.com/2017/12/14/land-a-poem-by-peggy-turnbull/
• “The Lenten Rose,” in The Weekly Avocet.  no. 229.  April 30, 2017. 
• “Meals on Wheels,” in New Verse News.  July 7, 2017.  https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2017/07/meals-on-wheels.html
• “Milkweed,” in Three Line Poetry. no. 44.  August 2017.  http://threelinepoetry.com/issue.php?id=44&issue=44
• “Newcomer,” in Snapdragon:  A Journal of Healing and Art.  (3.3) Summer 2017.  http://www.snapdragonjournal.com/store/p23/%22Surrender%2C%22_Summer_2017_issue%2C_3.3.html
• “No Longer Silent,” in Social Justice Poetry. August 15, 2017.   https://www.socialjusticepoetry.com/?s=turnbull
• “November 9, 2016,” in Anti-Heroin Chic.  January 20, 2017.  http://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/november-9-2016-by-peggy-turnbull
• “October Reunion,” in Blognostics. December 21, 2018. https://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2018/12/21/october-reunion-by-peggy-turnbull/
• “Ode to Seeing,” in Solitary Plover.  Winter, 2018. http://www.lorineniedecker.org/documents/Winter2018web.pdf
• “Panel at the Quilt Exhibit,” “Evening Abstract,” “Genghis Khan in the Library,” “Dance Band at the Senior Center,” “Ode to a Barbershop Quartet,” and “Rocking Chair,” in Rocking Chair Abstract. Origami Poems Project, 2018. https://www.origamipoems.com/poets/353-peggy-turnbull
• “Party Sex,” in Mad Swirl, September 10, 2017.  http://madswirl.com/poetry/2017/09/party-sex/ Also featured in The Best of Mad Swirl, 2017.
• “Patriot,” in Rat’s Ass Review.  Special Issue:  Such an Ugly Time.  2017.  http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=2399#Turnbull
• “The Pilgrimage Home,” in Peacock Journal.  March 9, 2017.  http://peacockjournal.com/peggy-turnbull-pilgrimage-home/
• “Pleasure,” in Three Line Poetry.  no. 38.  http://threelinepoetry.com/issue.php?id=38&issue=38
• “Poem of Attachment,” in Amethyst Review, July 2, 2019.
• “Polka Band Surprise,” in Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar, 2018.       Reprinted in Verse-Virtual, August 2019.
• “Praying for Rescue, I Think of You,” in Verse-Virtual.  July 2018. http://www.verse-virtual.com/peggy-turnbull-2018-july.html
• “Rust Belt Factory,” in Poetry: Alive & Well & Living in Manitowoc! Manitowoc Public Library, April 14, 2018.  Reprinted in Verse Virtual, August 2019. http://www.verse-virtual.com/peggy-turnbull-2019-august.html

• “Shameless,” in Postcard Poems and Prose.  October 17, 2017.  https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/shameless-by-peggy-turnbull/
• “The Skirt,” in Parody. v. 6 no. 2, October 31, 2017.  http://parody.onimpression.com/p/read-online.html
• “Song of the Mountaintop, Removed,” in The New Verse News.  April 14, 2017.  https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2017/04/song-of-mountaintop-removed.html
• “The Tenderness of an Airport,” in Pangolin Review. Issue 11, July 8, 2019. https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/e869c8_2a1723981f7e4330ac119929dd0ab112.pdf
• “Thanksgiving for City-Dwelling Animals,” “Prayer for Getting Out,” “Sufi Dances,” in Verse-Virtual, March 2018.  http://www.verse-virtual.com/peggy-turnbull-2018-march.html   
• “Thank You, Stormy,” in The New Verse News. December 3, 2018. https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2018/12/thank-you-stormy.html
• Three Poems:  “Prayer for Petroglyphs,” “The Secret of Her Garden,” “Wind Charm,” in Ariel Chart, April 2018.  http://arielchart.blogspot.com.au/search?q=peggy+turnbull
• “Three Poems:   “When Big Tuba Goes to Heaven,” “Church of the Holy Urban Messengers,” and “At Evening, the Faithful Gather.” in Soul-Lit, Fall/Winter 2018.  http://www.soul-lit.com/poems/V18/Turnbull/index.html

• Three Poems in Amethyst Review:  “Post-Procedure Prayer,” “After the Funeral Service,” and “Four Hundred Roses. 

1. Post-Procedure Prayer (6-10-28)
2. After the Funeral Service (6-17-28)
3. Four Hundred Roses (6-28-18)
4.  “Three Poems by Peggy Turnbull:  ‘Where Prayers Go,’ ‘The Winter I Lived in a Basement,’ ‘Coloring Inside the Lines,’” in Communicators League.  January 20, 2017.  https://communicatorsleague.com/2017/01/20/three-poems-by-peggy-turnbull/
5. Two Poems by Peggy Turnbull: “Kristallnacht, Again,” and “July Evening, West Virginia,” in Writers Resist,  April 19, 2018. http://www.writersresist.com/2018/04/19/two-poems-by-peggy-turnbull/

• “Unseen,” in Young Ravens Literary Review.  Issue 6.  Summer, 2017.  http://www.youngravensliteraryreview.org/peggy-turnbull.html
• “Waterfall,” in Write Like You’re Alive, 2019. Tangent Press East: 2019. P. 17.
• “When Summer Breathes,” forthcoming in Your Daily Poem.
• “Winter Haiku,” in The Weekly Avocet.  no. 214, January 18, 2017. 
• “Winter Made the Trees Suffer” and “Love’s Wrong Turn,” in SickLit Magazine. September 19, 2016.  https://sicklitmagazine.com/2016/09/21/loves-wrong-turn-winter-made-the-trees-suffer-by-peggy-turnbull/