Margaret Marcum

Entry Year: 2025

Email

marcumm@mail.smu.edu

Education

M.F.A. in Creative Writing, with an emphasis in Poetry, Florida Atlantic University
Thesis, "Midsummer Night鈥檚 Poems,鈥 Professor Susan Mitchell, director
B.A. in English, with an emphasis in Poetry, University of Redlands
Honors Thesis, 鈥淟iquid Miracles,鈥 Professor Ralph Angel, director

 

Research Focus

My research and literary interests include ecofeminism and healing the collective through personal narrative.

 

Awards, Funding, and Grants

  • Elected to Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society in 2018
  • Finalist for the Rash Award in Poetry sponsored by the Broad River Review in 2021

 

Scholarly Articles

  • "The Skull as Memento Mori in Two Revenge Tragedies, Hamlet and The Revenger's Tragedy." Forthcoming in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England.

 

Poetry

  • “Hunger” and “White Wolf.”More Softly than the Thunder,Children, Churches & Daddies, Volume 306, February 2021, pp. 18 and 19.
  • “Steam.”Broad River Review, Volume 53, 2021, p. 157.
  • “(Let’s) Playhouse.”NonBinary Review, Issue 27: Shared Worlds, 2022, p. 40.
  • “Wonderland.”Meniscus, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2022, p. 84.
  • The Recognition of Movement. Bottlecap Press, 2023.
  • “A Light at the River’s End.”Metonym Literary Journal, Volume 11, Spring 2023, p. 91.
  • Torch of Enlightenment. Origami Poems Project, 2024.
  • “Are women sponges” and “Candy.”Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation, Issue 22, 2024, pp. 205 and 206.
  • “Fading You-In-Verse.”Sand Hills Literary Magazine, Volume 48, 2024, p. 98.
  • “My thoughts.”The Scop: Literary and Fine Arts Magazine for King’s College, Volume 85, Spring 2025, p. 53.
  • “Spiders on Mars.”TheCorpus Callosum Journal, Volume 2.1, 2025, p. 75.
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