Margaret Rockwell Finch was born in 1921 in Cape May, New Jersey. She produced her first book of poems, Davy's Lake, in 1996. Her poetry has appeared in The Saturday Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Passages, and in many other periodicals, as well as in several anthologies including The Poets' Grimm (2003). Recipient of the 1973 Poetry Society of America's Annual Members Award, she recently served as editorial chair of Coming Home Twice, the anthology of the Maine Poets Society. She is also well known as a maker of Fine Art Dolls.
Four Poems by Margaret Rockwell Finch
The Barefoot Goose
Haunted, burnished passion echoes through these deft and beautifully alert lyrics. Margaret Rockwell Finch uses poetry 's
traditional means to ends that are purely her own. From time's quarrels, she has fashioned poems that resonate with poetry's
timelessness. —Baron Wormser
Finch's moving love lyrics are passionate and lightly elegaic by turns. They speak unabashedlly about desire and the
human heart, but without the taints of sensationalism or sentimentality. Speak, however, is not the right word; given the
delicately tuned musicality of these poems, the mot juste must be sing. —David Yezzi
I love my mother's poetry, the beautiful calibrations of her skilled lines and stanzas, the range of wit and sadness and dignity
in her themes and voices. Her courageous poems are a living link in a chain of women poets ranging back through Millay
and Dickinson. Many of her poems have haunted and fascinated me for years, and I am proud and happy to see them gaining
recognition at last. —Annie Finch
Annie and Maggie Finch on the porch of Beyond Baroque before
reading there with Barbara Bain, April 2006
Davy's Lake