Catherine Wagner
Profile
Cathy Wagner, a poet, is the author of three books, My New Job (Fence, 2009), Macular Hole (Fence, 2004) and Miss America (Fence, 2001). Her chapbooks include Bornt (Dusie, 2009), Articulate How (Big Game Books/Dusie, 2008), Hole in the Ground (Slack Buddha, 2008), Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large (Bonfire Press, 2007), Imitating (Leafe Press, 2004), Exercises (811 Books, 2004), Boxes (Seeing Eye [now Mindmade] Books, 2001) and Fraction Anthems (811 Books, 2001).
She has written essays and reviews on Alice Notley, Lev Rubinstein, Harryette Mullen, Leslie Scalapino, Barbara Guest and others. An essay on creative writing pedagogy will appear in the anthology Poets on Teaching, (Iowa UP, 2010). With Rebecca Wolff, she co-edited the anthology Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Bearing and Child-Rearing (Fence 2007). For a special triple issue of Chicago Review on Barbara Guest, Wagner edited and wrote an afterword for a selection of Guest’s previously unpublished poems. She is currently editing a manuscript of 1960s poems she located in the Barbara Guest archive at Yale.
Wagner’s poems have appeared in anthologies including State of the Union: An Anthology of Political Poems (Wave, 2008), The Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner 2008), Starting Today: Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days, (Iowa UP, forthcoming 2009), Gurlesque: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry (Saturnalia, forthcoming 2010), A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence, 2009), and Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Verse, 2004). A chapbook-length selection of poems from her latest project is forthcoming in Verse in 2009.