Margo Taft Stever's three full-length poetry collections are The End of Horses, one of three books awarded a 2022 Pinnacle Achievement Award in the category of Poetry (Broadstone Books, 2022); Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press, 2019) shortlisted and honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; and Frozen Spring (2002 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry). Her latest of four chapbooks is Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in literary magazines including Verse Daily, Plant-Human Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Rattapallax, upstreet, Salamander, West Branch, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Poem-A-Day, poets.org, Academy of American Poets, and Prairie Schooner. She is an adjunct assistant professor in the Bioethics Department of the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Stever currently teaches a poetry workshop at Children's Village, a residential school for at-risk children and adolescents. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.

Other poems by Margo Taft Stever in Verse Daily:
August 3, 2019:   "Dolls" "The dolls wait for the children..."
March 3, 2019:   "Hand" "Cell and bone..."

Books by Margo Taft Stever:

Other poems on the web by Margo Taft Stever:
"For Sale"
Two poems
Two poems
"Bottom Land"
"Dolls"
Four poems
"Lullaby"

Margo Taft Stever's Website.

Margo Taft Stever on Twitter.

About The End of Horses:

"Margo Taft Stever's The End of Horses shows an important poet working at the height of her powers. 'Treehouse' opens with lines that describe Stever's poetry, in both subject and taut form: 'Something about roots, / bone-like, tenacious, / that grip the moving ground.' Stever has always painted indelible portraits of the natural world—its violence and vulnerability, as well as its beauty. In this book, readers will see a deepening of her long eco-poetic project, and of her interest in the human animal, the tender and flawed human family alive on fraught Earth."
—Suzanne Cleary

"The poems in Margo Stever's The End of Horses mourn our irreversible ecological change, in elegiac turns and odes to the beauty that remains. The speaker's past is recast through a political lens, turbulent and haunting in retrospect. Stever's ecopoetry emphasizes our enmeshment with tragedies we have created. Powerful, terrifying, and gorgeous, these poems are, above all, fearless."
—Denise Duhamel

"'Nothing about you lacked/ intensity,' Margo Stever writes in a poem addressed to her dead mother. The same could be said about the poems in Stever's new book, The End of Horses. Whether directing her attention to the natural world, her own past, or the confounding aspects of society, her taut phrasing and incisive imagery are always invigorating, even (or perhaps especially) when her lyricism becomes tinged with a sense of unease—to the point, sometimes, that the images begin to feel like omens. The urgency becomes particularly acute in the poems about animals and their plight at the hands of humans, as she both records and honors 'the almost gone, the forgotten.'"
—Jeffrey Harrison