Maggie Capettini is an Illinois artist who recently began writing poems. She feels the inverse of Georgia O’Keeffe: that she can say with words what she cannot say with color and shapes. Her creative works are strongly inspired by the experience of being present in the natural environment.
Poems
Other Writings
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Awarded 3rd Place, ISPS Modern Haiku Award by judge Elaine Person - Illinois State Poetry Society 2025 Contest
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Awarded Honorable Mention #1, ISPS Traditional Haiku Award by judge Diane Reeves Taylor - Illinois State Poetry Society 2025 Contest
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Awarded 3rd Honorable Mention by Nature judge Janice Freytag in the Poets & Patrons 69th Annual Poetry Contest.
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Included in The Songs of Summer: Poetry About Baseball - an anthology available through Water’s Edge Press.
“Best Writing Practices” - About Write - Off Campus Writers’ Workshop
“This Winter, Paint Outside!” - The Nature Artists’ Quarterly, Nature Artists’ Guild of The Morton Arboretum
“The Forgotten Essentials: A Memoir of Persistence” - Outdoor Painter