Margaret Lee

Creative Imagination: Two Books by Leslie Ullman

Book ReviewFebruary 4, 20262KViews 3Likes 0Comments

Self Portrait as Vanishing Act, Lily Poetry Review Books, 2025 and Unruly Tree: Poems, UNM, 2024. Clear, sensuous, and accessible, Leslie Ullman’s poems exhibit the vast scope of creative imagination in her two new poetry collections, Unruly Tree: Poems and Self-Portrait as Vanishing Act. Striking for their sharp focus and mesmerizing for their rich vocabulary,…

Why Sappho?

Collections, SapphoFebruary 3, 20262KViews 3Likes 0Comments

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 in the digital, polluted twenty-first century with its driverless cars and crypto currency. To me, the answer seemed…

Good Writers Need Good Readers!

Reading, WritingJanuary 7, 20262KViews 3Likes 2Comments

As soon as I finish writing a poem, I need someone to read it. “Finish” is really the wrong word, since nearly every piece of writing can be improved. I find it difficult to bracket my mental framework long enough to evaluate my writing from the outside. Improvement requires fresh perspective. I need astute and…

The Story Behind Sappho Prompts

WritingJanuary 2, 20262KViews 3Likes 2Comments

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 adulthood. Even now, I sometimes suspect the contents might morph between the covers while I’m not looking. The First Attempt It all started…

Goat, Goddess, Moon: A Review

Book ReviewSeptember 25, 20252KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Strisik, Catherine. 2025. Goat, Goddess, Moon. Holy Cow! Press. It begins in Amygdaliés, her great grandmother’s village in north-central Greece. Here, the opening poem discloses, is the love/poem with the seed,/the source of what was/buried and what was dug/what is nutrient. Amygdaliés is aptly named with the Greek word for “almond,” which also designates the almond-shaped biological structure…

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Creative Imagination: Two Books by Leslie Ullman

Why Sappho?

Good Writers Need Good Readers!

The Story Behind Sappho Prompts

Goat, Goddess, Moon: A Review