First Wednesday Poetry Reading Featuring Poet Margaret Lee

Margaret Lee is a poet, scholar, fiber artist, watercolor sketcher, and aspiring naturalist in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is a 2026 winner of the Woody Barlow Poetry Prize. Her poetry collection, Sappho Prompts (Finishing Line Press, 2026), uses fragmentary lines from the ancient Greek poet as prompts for new poems. Margaret’s previous chapbooks with Finishing Line Press include Someone Else’s Earth (2021), Sagebrush Songs (2022), Oklahoma Summer (2023), and Orange Persephone (2025). Her poems also appear in From Behind the Mask, (Paperback-Press 2020); Echoes of Tradition: Indigenous Orientation to Community, Time, and Land (Tulsa NightWriters 2024); eMerge Magazine; Okie Modern; Atlanta Review; and Pangyrus. Her book reviews appear in American Poetry Review, Women’s Review of Books, Barrelhouse, Compulsive Reader, and Taos Journal of Poetry. Her academic publications focus on the ancient Greek language and the history and culture of the ancient world.