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Margaret Mackinnon
Margaret Mackinnon’s most recent collection is Afternoon in Cartago (Ashland Poetry Press), which won the 2021 Richard Snyder Memorial Prize.
Carrying the Shell to Iona
It’s no wonder the Highlands have been called melancholy....
Eve’s Journey
In the tender light of late afternoon, Eve at last arrives. She’s climbed the shaded slope, but even in Paradise, ...
A Woman of Salt Near the Dead Sea
I have seen the pillar of salt, and it remains to this day. —Flavius Josephus, first century CE...
Hagar and Ishmael,
Jean-Charles Cazin, 1880
Jean-Charles Cazin, 1880
And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. (Gen. 21:14)...
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