Margaret B. Ray

poetry

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  • Wuthering Heights
    Poet Lore (January 2025)
  • The Lesson
    Waxwing (September 2024)
  • Garden State
    Poets.org: reprint of Lambda Literary Finalists (June 2024)
  • Cinnabon & Portrait of Desire with Faulty Theory of Art (Coyote and Roadrunner Again)
    PRISM International (May 2024)
  • The Condition of Music
    HAD (March 2024)
  • Lavender
    The Nation (December 2023)
  • Noodles, August, the Courtyard of New York-Presbyterian Hospital
    Highly Commended for the Bridport Poetry Prize, UK (October 2023)
  • Bertrande de Rols (1)
    The Atlantic (August 2023)
  • ESSAY: On Distance and Clarity
    The Adroit Journal (April 2023)
  • Bertrande de Rols (2)
    The Cortland Review (February 2023)
  • Archimedes, Get Out of the Tub
    The Cortland Review (February 2023)
  • Peaches
    Finalist (Shortlisted) for the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2022 (September 2022)
  • Fuck, Marry, Bury: Loneliness, Solitude, Isolation
    RHINO (summer 2022)
  • Hail Mary
    The Yale Review (June 2022)
  • Making Out at the Movies
    Southeast Review (April 2022)
  • Grief is a Sudden Room
    Aquifer: The Florida Review Online (March 2022)
  • Reader, I Married Him
    Poetry Society of America 'In Their Own Words' Series, reprint with short essay (February 2022)
  • Wanda Vibing
    Zócalo Public Square (January 2022)
  • A Collection of Dangerous Things Interspersed with Things Occasionally Fine or Good
    Spillway (December 2021)
  • After
    Narrative (November 2021)
  • 3 Poems
    LEON Literary Review (October 2021)
  • Taxonomy
    The Adroit Journal (August 2021)
  • Haunt
    The Adroit Journal (August 2021)
  • Disaster A/version Re/vision
    december; runner-up Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize (Summer 2021)
  • ShamWow
    SWWIM (May 2021)
  • Expulsion Lessons but Replace the Garden with a Swamp
    Gulf Coast (April 2021)
  • Gig Economy
    Scoundrel Time (Spring 2021)
  • Reader, I Married Him
    Poet Lore (Fall/Winter 2020) read→
  • While Wandering in Montreal, I Mistake Desire for That Feeling You Get When You Actually Want to Be Another Person
    Winner of the 2020 Third Coast Poetry Contest, Third Coast (Winter 2020) read→
  • My Younger Self Speaks to Me and I Write Down What She Says
    Threepenny Review (Spring 2020 - print) read→
  • Freezing the Meat
    Barrow Street (Spring 2020 - print)
  • The Problem of Where to Put Things
    Glass: A Journal of Poetry (Summer 2020 – online)
  • First, and Then, and Then
    The Gettysburg Review (Winter 2019 – print)
  • Getting Your Period at the Water Park
    Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring 2020 - print) read→
  • Substance and Accident
    Alaska Quarterly Review (Winter/Spring 2020 - print)
  • The Clearing
    Alaska Quarterly Review (Winter/Spring 2020 print)
  • Dead Ringer
    The Comstock Review (Fall/Winter 2019 - print)
  • Enough
    The Comstock Review (Summer 2019 - print)
  • The View From Here
    The Comstock Review (Summer 2019 - print)
  • The End of August
    reprinted online by Poetry Society of America ()
  • The End of August
    Runner-Up for the James Hearst Poetry Prize, North American Review (Spring 2019 - print)
  • Garden State
    FIELD (Spring 2019 - print)
  • Tourist
    FIELD (Spring 2019 - print & online)
  • If a Lion Could Speak, We Couldn't Understand Him
    Frontier Poetry (February 2019 - online)
  • Civilization VI
    Gettysburg Review (Summer 2018 - print)
  • Still Life
    Mortar Magazine (May 2018 - online)
  • Superstitions of the Mid-Atlantic
    Habitat Magazine (May 2018 - online)
  • March 13th, 1993: Jacksonville Airport & the Storm of the Century
    American Literary Review (Spring 2018 - online)
  • The Kids Are Alright
    Rattle: Poets Respond (April 2018 - online)
  • At A Distance
    FIELD (Spring 2017 - print)
  • Show/Tell
    FIELD (Spring 2017 - print)