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A poetic conversation across miles and millennia, Sappho Prompts engages an ancient voice in contemporary poems of life and love. Margaret Lee's collection responds to ancient Greek fragments of Sappho, known in antiquity as The Poetess. Lee's poems affirm the universal appeal of Sappho's lyrics that celebrate beauty, love, and the natural world. Using Sappho's fragmentary lines as prompts, Lee crafts new poems with insights into the myths, desires, and longings that characterize Sappho's ancient songs. Sappho Prompts features Lee's translations of Sappho from the Greek with extensive notes, cover art by the author, and an explanatory essay explaining Sappho's context in ancient literature and her enduring influence.

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Margaret Lee is a poet, scholar, fiber artist, watercolor sketcher, and aspiring naturalist. She finds poems in the Oklahoma woodlands and prairies, New Mexico deserts, Oregon seashores, and inner landscapes. Margaret's previous chapbooks with Finishing Line Press include Someone Else's Earth (2021), Sagebrush Songs (2022), Oklahoma Summer (2023) and Orange Persphone (2025.) Her poems have also appeared in From Behind the Mask, (Paperback-Press 2020), Echoes of Tradition: Indigenous Orientation to Community, Time, and Land (Tulsa NightWriters 2024), The Atlanta Review and Pangyrus. Her academic research and publications focus on the ancient Greek language and the history and culture of the ancient world.

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