People
Faculty
Catherine Wagner
Titles
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D. University of Utah, 2000
- M.F.A. University of Iowa, 1994
- B.A. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1991
Research and Teaching Interests
- Creative writing
- Poetry writing
- Contemporary and modern American poetry and poetics
- Contemporary and modern British poetry and poetics
- Poetry and politics
Selected Publications
- Verse magazine, 20-page feature, Fall 2008.
- Chicago Review special triple issue on poet Barbara Guest: selection of and introduction to a group of previously unpublished poems by Guest, Spring 2008.
- Bornt, chapbook of poems. Schaffhausen, Switzerland: Dusie Press, 2008.
- Articulate How, chapbook of poems. Washington, DC: Big Game Books, 2008.
- Hole in the Ground, chapbook of poems. Oxford, OH: Slack Buddha Press, 2008.
- Everyone in the Room is a Representive of the World at Large, chapbook of poems. Fort Collins, CO: Bonfire Press, 2007.
- Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing, anthology co-edited with Rebecca Wolff. Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2007.
- Macular Hole, book of poems. New York: Fence Books, 2004.
- Imitating, chapbook of poems. London: Leafe Press, 2004.
- Exercises, chapbook of poems. New York: 811 Books, 2004.
- Miss America, book of poems. New York: Fence Books, 2001.
- Hotel Faust, chapbook of poems. Sheffield/Cheltenham, England: West House Books/Gratton Street Irregulars, 2001.
- Boxes, chapbook of poems. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2001.
- Fraction Anthems, chapbook of poems. New York: 811 Books, 1999.
Individual poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Dusie, Verse, Salzburg Review, Magazine Cypress, Big Bell, Black Clock, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, The Gig, The Hat, New Review, Shearsman and Soft Targets, among others. Anthology publications include the forthcoming Gurlesque (Saturnalia 2009) as well as State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (Wave 2008), A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence 2008), Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Verse 2004) and The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800 to the Present (Scribner 2008).
Web Publications
- Textsound (Spring 2008): mp3 sound recordings of “Coming and I did not run away,” “Well in your chasm of faith,” http://textsound.org/.
- How2 feature on Contemporary Women’s Experimental Poetry Festival, Cambridge 2006.
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_1/cambridge/index.html - Bookslut: Zoe Ward, “An Interview with Catherine Wagner”
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_06_011222.php (June 2007). - Chicago Review, review of Harryette Mullen’s Recyclopedia
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/index_53_2_3.shtml (Winter 2007). - Reading at Soundeye: The Cork International Poetry Festival. Meshworks, http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/meshworks/ (July 2005).
- Reading and interview with Leonard Schwartz. Pennsound 98 and 102, http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/XCP.html (Fall/Winter 2005-2006).
- Action Yes, three poems
http://www.actionyes.org/issue2/idaho/wagner/wagner-poem3.html (Summer 2006). - “The Politics of Meter,” Academy of American Poets Web site, www.poets.org (January 2005).
- Boston Review, http://bostonreview.net/BR26.6/wagner.html
- “Induce,” Shearsman, http://wwwshearsman.com/pages/magazine/back_issues/shearsman57/wagner1.html (No. 57, Spring 2003).
- “Allied with It Were All Receptacles,” “I’m Total I’m All I’m Absorbed in this Meatcake,” “Resume, Face,” “The Violent Career of God,” GutCult, www.gutcult.com (Spring 2003).