https://www.maggieolsonpoetry.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606762868fb786612f63bd9b/1618691437787-OST0RMSXR7W8N43QJ9PV/PXL_20210417_145421108.PORTRAIT.jpg Home - Maggie Olson is a poet and writing coach from Chicago, IL. Poetry of resilience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606762868fb786612f63bd9b/1618692382941-TB6NZLGUYM1UR522QB8J/PXL_20210417_145336910.PORTRAIT.jpg Home - Read Selected Poems Available for the first time to the public, read some of Maggie’s poetry. https://www.maggieolsonpoetry.com/about daily 0.75 2021-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606762868fb786612f63bd9b/1618691747811-YU8L76F0VZNALELTYRUR/PXL_20210417_144456047.PORTRAIT.jpg About https://www.maggieolsonpoetry.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-09-09 https://www.maggieolsonpoetry.com/poems daily 0.75 2022-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606762868fb786612f63bd9b/1618850803322-BOQN2OKQ3YFCYHZDSVXY/wave_break.jpg Poems - I always thought there was something wrong with me. That I was constantly breaking and remaking myself. Now I see that that is a normal part of life-- the waves of it crashing against my lonely shores. If I didn’t have these shifts I could hardly call myself alive. It’s all the same. The breaking and returning of the waves. The breaking and recreating of the woman. — “the Waves of Being” 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606762868fb786612f63bd9b/1618853129116-RVE4J1K37FZI44KRFIFP/sunrise_lakemichigan.jpg Poems - If I hadn’t burned my old life to the ground and scattered the ashes to the four winds, if I hadn’t left behind me all that was safe and familiar and let myself be tossed by the storm, I would never have found you. And that would have been a tragedy. — “New Love” 2017