Judith McCombs
Judith McCombs is the winner of Shenandoah's 2012 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Measure, Poetry Northwest and Prairie Schooner, as well as five of her own collections, most recently The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New. She teaches workshops in Bethesda and arranges a reading series in Kensington, MD.
Reading List
Patrick McKommie: I Have Outlived My Chief
M’Comie Mor, 7th Chief of Clan MacThomas, Perthshire, died in 1674, after his heir and next-best son were killed in a skirmish with Airlie’s Royalist allies. Say he outlived his earthly rising stars: Ascendant when he rode in Montrose’ …
The Minister’s Wife Seeks Patrick McKommie’s Advice
Kildrummie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 1661-62 I spoke to her bent head, her clenched, gloved hands: We’d test the sign she brought, then find amends. We watched as the strand of hair left in her bed Curled wormlike, snakelike in my flame; …