His first book of poetry “Words of Rain” was published in 2014. The book was a finalist for an Oklahoma Book Award. Coburn is a Woody Guthrie Poet. In 2016, ten of Coburn’s poems against terrorism and to save the Sunderbans (wetlands) were published in “Onnyodhara” (The Alternative Way) Eid-special issue festival edition in association with “Anushilon” (The Culture & Literature Society) the National Literary Organization of Bangladesh. Coburn is a 2013 inductee of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. He is a resident poet at nondoc.com.