Margaret Claire’s debut poetry collection about fear’s image: The way it manifests across moments, the many attempts to mask it, and moving past it once and for all.
Now available worldwide.
ABOUT
Safer In The Pillow Fort is a collection of poetry that explores fear, faith, and forgotten and found relationships. The poems were written over the course of five-plus years, from Margaret Claire’s early college years to today’s quarantine days, from growing pains to marriage, from lost to found.
Broken up into five chapters, the poems guide the reader through different seasons of life and growth. Each poem can stand on its own, but together they tell a special story. The words are reflective, the imagery is attentive, and the form is meticulous—yet varying from piece to piece. A mix of storytelling versus moments of quiet observation and simply noticing brings the collection into balance.
Read them out loud and discover how the use of language and internal rhyme brings the words off the page. Or read them quietly, perhaps in a pillow fort, and enjoy how the words were designed to fall on the page: Negative space can be just as telling. Safer In The Pillow Fort is for readers who love the craft of poetry—or the craft of the moments of the world.
Margaret Claire also designed, illustrated, and formatted Safer In The Pillow Fort.
POETRY PUBLICATION HISTORY
Margaret Claire’s poem “In The Center Of Town” was awarded the Kachel Prize in 2018 at Lehigh University.
Also, her poem “Early Onset” was featured in the 2018 edition of Lehigh’s literary magazine, the Amaranth.
You can read these poems and more in her debut poetry collection, which is available to purchase via print or eBook on Amazon.