Margot Block

Margot Block has been writing since the age of fourteen and has been published in Zygote Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Juice, Voices, the Collective Consciousness, Grub Street, Cholla Needles, the Black Scat Review, Blank Spaces, Bakwa Magazine, the American Diversity Report, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal blog, Rusty Truck, Literary Yard, Cajun Mutt Press, the Poppy Road Review, Dark Winter Literary Magazine, Travel Artist Hub, Voices & Visions Literary Journal, Chrysalis Art & Literature Journal, Breaking Ground, and Quail Bell Magazine. She participated in the high school mentorship program with the Manitoba Writers Guild, working with canadian poet, Carol Rose. She won first prize in a poetry contest with the Writers Collective and an honorable mention in a poetry contest with the Lake Winnipeg Writers Group.

“Called to Rise,” “Cartoon of the Japanese,” and “Cast+”

we are called to rise when our souls awaken
collapsing over the edge of an orange sun
moving through its own heat
we awake from the deep
blue hair mussed
we are called to rise beyond the blood of the blind