Hope you'll join me and 70+ other authors at the LitFest Book Fair this Sunday at OSU-Tulsa, sponsored by the Center for Poets and Writers! Check out the long list of events, starting Wednesday!

The write stuff: Tulsa LitFest returns April 23-26 Tulsa LitFest returns this year from April 23-26 for a wide range of diverse, bookish events at multiple venues featuring local and visiting writers.

Check out this article in Tulsa People about LitFest, coming soon during National Poetry month!! I'll be at the book fair with all my books at a discount!
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Inside the Milky Way I drink the stars, swallow their light. They guide from within.  Like a worm, I dig, leaving space for the rain.  I follow the water, the green thickness. Who sings to the clouds after the storm? The...

So excited to share my first ever publication in @eMerge-magazine.com in their March issue! I hope you'll enjoy my short poem and explore all the authors in this new edition of eMerge!!
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DONATE TO SECURE THE NDN GIRLS BOOK CLUB BOOKMOBILE Make the big, pink truck a permanent reality for tribal communities!

Do you know the NDN Girls Book Club? If not, please check out this marvelous organization and consider supporting their goal to acquire their own bookmobile to make book drops for young Native readers and writers!
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What I’m Reading: March 2026 Memoir isn’t my favorite literary genre, so I’m surprised that I have read two memoirs in the past few weeks. One is a current bestseller, and the other is becoming a classic, if anything can achieve ...

It's Women's History month so I took the opportunity to read about some remarkable contemporary women and to share my reflections:
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Looking forward to the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival in Ada, Oklahoma in just a few weeks! The festival is free and open to the public - all reading! A celebration of writers and writings with face-to face connections! And a book fair!
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eMerge Unchained "eMerge Unchained" is a dynamic podcast that delves into the creative minds of writers from all walks of life. In each episode, we explore the stories behind the stories—diving into the craft, process...

So grateful to Aubrey Green and eMerge Unchained for inviting me to interview for their podcast, we discussed my new poetry collection, Sappho Prompts, and other subjects. Hope you'll listen in, and follow eMerge Unchained for other conversations with creative writers!
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What I’m Reading: February 2026 Women wrote the four books I read last month: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundati Roy, No One Knows Us Here: Poems by Jessica Bebenek, and Escape from Capitalism b...

Looking forward, looking back: Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas were the "frontier" around the time of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Their stories shed light on where we are now and tell cautionary tales. Here are my reflections: margaretlee.tempurl.host/what-im-read...

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Is LitFest on your calendar? This annual festival on April 23-26 sponsored by the OSU Center for Poets and Writers in Tulsa, OK includes events all over Tulsa, and a Book Fair (I'll be there with books!)! Don't miss it!
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What I’m Reading: January 2026 I am visiting the central Oregon coast, in an old house at the mouth of a river bay where forty degree temperatures, frilled waves, shifting clouds and tidal rhythms govern the days—an ideal environme...

So many books, so little time! With so much to read, it's easy to let books fly by. That's why I have begun a series of blog posts about What I'm Reading. The reflection helps me process the wealth in all these pages. Hope you'll check it out!
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The Flyer Book Club - Tulsa Flyer Community newsroom. Digital publication. Nonprofit organization. Book club? That’s right, Flyers. We’re now in the business of bringing Tulsans together to read and discuss literature about Tulsa or b...

If you know and love Tulsa, Oklahoma, I hope you know about The Tulsa Flyer, a new, non-profit, local press. They started a book club to read and discuss in person books by and about Tulsa and Oklahoma. Last night's first meeting was impressive. Don't miss it!!
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Life and death - timeless subjects that can still be explored in imaginative ways. I hope you will take a look at my review of a marvelous poetry collection by Canadian poet and book artist, Jessica Bebenek: compulsivereader.com/2026/02/23/a...

Elise Paschen’s “Blood Wolf Moon” Is An Unflinching Look At Identity And Inheritance - The Pickup The Osage poet who inspired the title “Killers of the Flower Moon” is back with an astounding new collection.

Leave it to The Pickup in Tulsa (of This Land Press) to publish this stunning review of Elise Paschen's new poetry collection - thepickup.com/elise-pasche...

Sappho Prompts RELEASING JANUARY 9, 2026 A poetic conversation across miles and millennia, Sappho Prompts engages an ancient voice in contemporary poems of life and love. Margaret Lee’s collection responds to ...

One of my favorite Sappho fragments! I have written my own poems based on this fragment, and also have a new poetry collection based on my own translations of some of Sappho's fragments: margaretleeauthor.com/sappho-promp...

Sappho Prompts RELEASING JANUARY 9, 2026 A poetic conversation across miles and millennia, Sappho Prompts engages an ancient voice in contemporary poems of life and love. Margaret Lee’s collection responds to ...

This book is high on my reading list, so I would love to know what you think! Balmer has a hard-earned reputation for erudition and artfulness. You might also be interested in my new book that uses some of my own translations: margaretleeauthor.com/sappho-promp...

Why Sappho? When a friendly reader of my poems posed the question, “Why Sappho?” I could only offer an inane response: “I have no idea.” I felt utterly at sea while casting about for reasons that might make sense...

The wide interest nowadays in the ancient Greek poet Sappho has the support of poets, novelists, classicists and others. Why care about a woman who lived 2,500 years ago? Check out my blog post about why I wrote my most recent poetry collection, Sappho Prompts!

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The Story Behind Sappho Prompts I never intended to write Sappho Prompts, my first full-length poetry collection. The project came to birth of its own accord. Like a growing child, the book assumed many forms before achieving adulth...

I'm glad to say that preorders of my poetry collection, Sappho Prompts, have shipped. Some folks have asked me about my writing process for this rather unusual book, so I have a brief blog post on my website with the backstory. I hope you check it out!!

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Books Launching in January 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in January 2026 from CLMP members.   The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie W...

So grateful for this recognition in the list of latest releases by the Community of Literary Magazines! My new poetry collection, Sappho Prompts, is now out and shipping orders!
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So excited to announce that my full-length poetry collection, Sappho Prompts, is now available, featuring new poems and original artwork and translations!

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So happy to share the link to the review in The Compulsive Reader of Leslie Ullman's brilliant books!

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Hope you check it out, and even more, that you read her books!

Even if you don't like poetry, you will LOVE two new books by Leslie Ullman, Unruly Tree: Poems (UNM 2024), and Self-Portrait as Vanishing Act (Lily Poetry Review Books 2025).

Both books explore identity and creativity.

Watch for my upcoming review of both in The Compulsive Reader!!!

What an amazing event! Such brilliant women reading a stunning collection of ecopoems!

Marvelous event in Santa Fe yesterday at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeeshop - a reading by local poets included in the new ecopoetry anthology, Attached to the Living World!

(L to R) Lauren Camp, Pam Uschuk, Sawnie Morris, Elizabeth Jacobson. Absent from the photo is Anne Haven McDonnell.

NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Sappho Prompts by Margaret Lee
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A poetic conversation across miles and millennia, Sappho Prompts engages an ancient voice in contemporary poems of life and love. Margaret Lee’s responds to ancient #Greek #Sappho,

A Poem by Margaret Lee Water Song for Sappho     Become my voice.            lyrics  Your          rode&n…

So excited that Finishing Line Press has made available a poem from my forthcoming poetry collection called Sappho Prompts! Preorders are open now!
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Love the welcome! Thank you!

Your photos are amazing, Adrianna!

My review of "Goat, Goddess, Moon" now available in the Taos Journal of Poetry.

"The collection is a love story, or perhaps a love song, since its first poem, “Seed,” declares: This is not a story,/more the truth."

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Excited for the publication of my first full-length work crafting poetry inspired by Sappho. Pre-order available now: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/sapp...