Megan E. Freeman's Publications

Books

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Snakebit - middle grade prose novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027

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Untitled Book Three - middle grade companion to ALONE and AWAY, Simon & Schuster/Aladdin, 2027

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The Secret to Belonging - young adult novel in verse, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, 2026

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AWAY – middle grade companion to ALONE, Simon & Schuster/Aladdin, 2025

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ALONE – middle grade novel in verse, Simon & Schuster/Aladdin, 2021

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Lessons on Sleeping Alone – premium poetry chapbook,  Liquid Light Press, 2015

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Anthologies

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"before dawn"– Splendor: An Anthology of Love in All its Forms, Writing Heights, Fall 2025

"Non-pareil"

"What's in a name?"

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"after the fires" - Columbine at 45, Columbine Poets, Fall 2023

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"My Lancelot"– Exception/ALL: An Exploration of Normal, Writing Heights, Fall 2023

"and another thing they never tell you"

"Sitting in poetry class"

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Prologue – Ungoverned Children, The Bookworm of Edwards, May 2022

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"Bath"– Chiaroscuro: An Anthology of Virtue and Vice, Northern Colorado Writers, Fall 2021

"Hollyhocks"

"incantation"

"Matins"

"this poem is not about the dream"

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"the world is ending and my dryer is broken" – Fresh Starts, Pikes Peak Writers, 2021

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"Birthing" – Rise:  An Anthology of Change, Northern Colorado Writers, 2019

"milkweed" (Pushcart nomination)

"In the Dark of Earliest Morning"

"the most beautiful parts of my body"

"With Fiona Near Reykjavik"

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"Back in the Middle Kingdom" – Poems from the Back Forty, Columbine Poets of Colorado, 2018

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"Teaching Marileen to Smoke" – Vine Leaves Literary Journal:  A Collection of Vignettes from Across the Globe, 2017

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"Root Cellar" – Weird Sisters: Lilac City Fairy Tales, Scabland Books, April 2017 

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"On Winter Days in Northern Norway" – Shortest Day, Longest Night, Arachne Press, December 2016

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IMPROV An Anthology of Colorado Poets:  Peace, War, Love – Green Fuse Poetic Arts, 2009

     "I am the rubber-gloved"

     "We Went to War on a Sunday"

     "In the Garden"

     "Shadow"

     "honeymoon's over"
 

Ink – Colorado State University Writing Project, 2005

     "Two Figs"

     "My Hero"

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The Alphabet of the Night – Area H, LAUSD, 1980

     "Twelve"

 

Paris and the Poetry Mermaid – Area H, LAUSD, 1979

     "I am the Ocean"

     "Telephone"

 

Walt Whitman, Your Beard Full of Butterflies – Area H, LAUSD, 1978

     "My grandfather held me close"

     "I am the blue pool"

     "A bear"

     "Roses have white breath"

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Literary Journals

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"Poetry in the Basement" - English Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 1, September 2022

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"2312 North Fourth Street" – The Rockford Review, Winter-Spring 2020

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"framing you" – The Sunlight Press, Winter 2020

"Planetary Differentiation" (Pushcart nomination)

"The Difference Between Cheesecake and Dementia"

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"The rug you pulled out from under us" – Scarlet Leaf Review, January 2020

"the words pile up"

"All Fall Down"

"appropriate"

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"Cement Shoes" – Déraciné Literary Magazine, Winter 2019

"Bindweed"

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"I Keep Forgetting" – Anti-Heroin Chic, November 2019

"around every turn"

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"Algorithm" – Wild Musette Journal, #1901, March 2019

"like raindrops but not rain"

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"elegy" – Listen:  A Seeker's Resource for Spiritual Direction, July 2018

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"We Will Meet Under the Bodhi Tree" – Ashé Journal, May 2018

"walking meditation"

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"Entree" – Riggwelter, January 2018

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"spell wow backward" – The Manhattanville Review, December 2017

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"Megan E. Freeman:  Poetry Here and Now" – The Boulderist podcast interview, September, 2017

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"am I Moon or are you?" – Sheila-Na-Gig, Summer 2017

"Petroglyphs"

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"so often now" – Stoneboat Literary Journal, Issue 7.2, Spring 2017 

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"Of Unhappy Men and Minotaurs"  – Five:2:One Magazine, April 2017

"one of those rare celestial events"

"Patience"

"physical geography"

"Overnight in Joshua Tree"

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"Giving Way to Longing" – Visitant Literary Magazine, February 2017

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"In This Story I am Cassandra and You Are Deaf" – deLuge Literary and Art Journal, Issue 2.1, Fall 2016

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"Many Roads Lead to Town" – Visitant Literary Magazine, November 2016

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"Bowie, Prince, and Harper Lee" – ​Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, November 2016

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"Ennui" – The Turnip Truck(s), November 2016

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"Despair"   – ​Dying Dahlia Review – July 2016

"Euphoria"     

 

"Introduction to Icarus" – Every Day Poems, March 2016
 

"Interview with Megan E. Freeman" – Robert King, Colorado Poets Center, 2016

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"Fraser, Colorado  7:48 p.m." – Turtle Island Quarterly, summer 2015

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"Driving Past Autumn Aspen Groves" – first prize (nature category), Michael Adams Poetry Prize, 2015

 

"Daybreak" – Literary Mama, 2006

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Guest Blog Posts​

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Contagious Curiosity

The Best Books to Introduce Readers to Novels in Verse

School Library Journal: Life-Altering Stories 

School Library Journal: Writing What Haunts You

Poetry for Children: The Choice to Write ALONE in Verse

GeoLibrarian: The Story Behind the Story of ALONE

Reading Between the Wines: Novels in Verse

Caroline Starr Rose: Classroom Connections

Pop! Goes the Reader: Authors Talk Holidays

 

Commissions & Collaborations

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Women Artists & Poets: A Collaboration - multi-media collaboration, Lone Tree Art Center, July 2023

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Encounters: How the Light Gets In – multi-media collaboration, Artworks Loveland, May 2017

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Muse and Music – poetry and music collaboration, Where the Books Go, March 2017

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Line Casting – multi-media collaboration, Artworks Loveland, May 2016

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"crow pose"– text for a composition by Thomas Edward Morgan, commissioned by Ars Nova Singers, April 2016

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"Music’s Music" – text for a composition by Steven Sametz, commissioned by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, 2009

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