I began to publish poems in 2016. Here are links to my most recent publications. My thanks to the editors who have accepted my work for their journals; thank you for what you do to promote poetry.
- “Storm on the Lake” in Mad Swirl, February 21, 2026.
- “On the Run” in October Hill Magazine, Number 9 issue 4, 2026.
- “At Midnight,” “Unexpected Snow at Night,” and “Report from the Dark Woods” in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, November 22, 2025.
- “Bookends of Grief,” “Among Burial Mounds,” and “The Season’s Last Crossing” in Verse-Virtual, October 2025.
- “February Program on the Birds of Costa Rica,” The Stafford Challenge 2024–25 Anthology, Ed. by Brian Rohr. Wild Poet Press, 2025.
- “Polka Morning Surprise” in Moss Piglet, May 2025.
- “The Indomitable Song of Benny the Beiraffe,” and “In a Kayak on Collins Marsh in Mid-July.” 2025 Exhibit. Lakeshore Artists Guild. May 4-June 15, 2025, at the Rahr West Art Museum in Manitowoc, WI.
- “When the Land Belonged to God,” after the 1914 painting by Charles M. Russell, in Moss Piglet, April 2025.
- Tactile in Silver Birch Press, March 8, 2025.
- Seamless Progression in MadSwirl, January 6, 2025.
- Thursday Social Hour at Assisted Living. The Bookends Review. December 25, 2024.
- Thanksgiving with Alzheimer’s. Storyteller Poetry Review. November 28, 2024.
- January. In 2025 Poets’ Calendar. Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.
- The Wandering Roommate, Kohlrabi, She Is a Hard Nut, A Memory of Winter, My Winter Slippers. Medusa’s Kitchen. October 27, 2024.
- Ode to Dental Floss. Forthcoming in Your Daily Poem, Last Day Addendum. (I need to check on this one as I haven’t seen a Last Day Addendum for 2024 from Your Daily Poem.)
- Haiku. Longlisted in The Haiku Foundation’s Dialogue on Internal Migration. April 3, 2024.
- Falling in Love with Words. reprinted in Storyteller Poetry Review: Super-sized Series–Poetry Readings and Poets. March 26, 2024.
- Wisconsin Ash Elegy and A Tale of Two Hues. Art as Poetry as Art. 2024 Exhibit. Lakeshore Artists Guild. April 6-June 7, 2024, at the Manitowoc Public Library.
- A Surrealistic Winter, 1975-76. Eunoia Review, May 2024 (CNF).
- Haiku. Haikuniverse. March 24, 2024.
- Our Backyard Plum Trees, Driving Home from Poetry Class at Night, The Power of Place in Capella. vol. 3, issue 1, Autumn 2023.
- The New Year Listens for Hope, reprinted in The Best of Mad Swirl, v 2023.
- Storyteller of the Week: Margaret Coombs. Storyteller Poetry Review. February 16, 2024.
- Coal Town, 1982. Writing In a Woman’s Voice. February 10, 2024. (flash CNF)
- The New Year Listens for Hope. Mad Swirl. December 27, 2023.
- Love Poem for Morning Light. Verse-Virtual. November 2023.
- The Liminal Lake and One Who Flies Like a Bird. Art as Poetry as Art. 2023 Exhibit. Lakeshore Artists Guild. May 14-June 18, 2023 at the Rahr-West Art Museum.
- Artemis at the University. Sad Girls Club Blog. February 27, 2023.
- Found By Instinct. Your Daily Poem. March 24, 2023.
- Women in a Waiting Room, 1998. Mad Swirl. February 23, 2023.
- 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. Print.
- 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. Print.
- 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.