Catherine Wagner
Profile
Cathy Wagner (PhD University of Utah, 2000; MFA University of Iowa) is working on a new book of poems and editing two anthologies, both to appear in 2007 from Fence Books: one of poems by mothers and another entitled A Poetry and Politics Primer. She is also writing essays, among them one on utopian thought-experiments in the work of Leslie Scalapino and Alice Notley and another on sound and versification in contemporary experimental poetry.
Her publications include Macular Hole (Fence Books, 2004), Imitating (Leafe Press, 2004), Exercises (811 Books, 2004), Miss America (Fence Books, 2001). Individual poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Black Clock, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, The Gig, The Hat, New Review, Shearsman, and Soft Targets, among others, and in several anthologies including Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets, Verse Press (2004).