Meghan Sterling
Writing and Workshops

Writings

Published Work

In Print

 

  • Back Before I Was Tethered, I Saw The Desert, Belle, May 2023.
  • Planting an Orchard in Winter, Freshwater Magazine (Summer, 2006)
  • Lilies, Being Georgia, Stone River Review (Winter, 2012)
  • Inheritance, Driftwood Press (September, 2016)
  • Still Life with Snow, What Emerges, Adeline, Weaning, Love Poem, Balancing Act 2 (December, 2018)
  • All That I Have is Yours, reprint courtesy of Eunoia Review, Frost Meadow, May 2019
  • Succession, Codicil, A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, December 2019
  • The Deeper We Dig, Your Hair Becomes Fringe, Excavation, Easy Breezy, Celestial Event, Her Body Bends like a Tent on Fire, Pillow Fort, Tat II, Bliss, The Curtain, Frost Meadow Review, Summer 2020
  • Loon Stabs Bald Eagle through the Heart the Same Week George Floyd Was Murdered, Enough!:Maine Poets Protest, Fall 2020
  • Hero, i-70 Review, September 2020
  • My OCD is now “Good Hygiene”, WAIT: Poems from the Pandemic, Littoral Books, April 2021
  • These Few Seeds, Full-length collection, Terrapin Books, April 2021
  • Sailor, ARTWORD, April 2021
  • Furies, O Medusa, Last Leaves Magazine, May 2021
  • Everything Old is New Again, Strange Fire: Jewish Voices on the Pandemic, 2021
  • Just Behind My Shoulder-Blades, With Her Gone, Turning Away, Cantos, Spring 2022
  • Sonnet for the First Blue, The Pinch Journal, Spring 2022
  • It’s 5 AM, Tar River Poetry, Spring 2022
  • My Grandfather Wouldn’t Speak of the Old Country, Pushcart-Prize Nominee, Fine Print Journal, Fall 2022.

Forthcoming

  • Blue Giant, Meridian, Summer 2023
  • My Body Holds New York, Psaltery and Lyre, April 2023
  • Self-Portrait of Half-Jew Celebrating Hanukkah, Minyan Magazine, November 2023
  • What If My Father Not My Father, Solstice, April 2023
  • Clouds Are a Mother, Bear Review, Summer 2023
  • Biography, Arc Poetry Magazine, Summer 2023
  • Self Portrait with Sparrow Song, Mom Egg Review, Spring 2023
  • The Night Sea Dreams, Invisible City Lit, Winter 2023
  • You Could Cut It With a Knife, Tusculum Review, Winter 2023
  • Legacy, Birdcoat Quarterly, Summer 2022
  • Gap, Jet Fuel Review, Spring 2022
  • Rear-View and Animal Dreams, Pirene’s Fountain, Winter 2022
  • Names for Ghosts and Birthday Parties, UCity Review, Fall 2021
  • O Holy, Finalist, Gigantic Sequins Annual Poetry Contest, Spring 2022.
  • Dear Memory, Colorado Review, Summer 2022
  • Says the Stone, Radar Poetry, Summer 2022
  • What the Trees, Whale Road Review, Spring 2022
  • North and South, Bracken, Spring 2022
  • Because We Are, in Fact, the Ghosts, Rosh Hashanah, There are Many Ways to See it, Self Portrait on Hike with Father and Cicadas, The Idaho Review, Winter 2023
  • Give Us This Day, Los Angeles Review, Summer 2022
  • February Fruit, Rhino Poetry, Winter 2023