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
Books
- My New Job. New York: Fence Books, forthcoming 2009, http://www.upne.com/1-934200-26-3.html.
- Macular Hole. New York: Fence Books, 2004, http://fencebooks.fenceportal.org/popups/macular.html.
- Miss America. New York: Fence Books, 2001, http://fencebooks.fenceportal.org/popups/macular.html.
Chapbooks
- Bornt. Miniature handmade chapbook. Schaffhausen, Switzerland: Dusie Press, 2009.
- Articulate How. Washington, DC: Big Game Books, 2008.
- Hole in the Ground. Oxford, OH: Slack Buddha Press, 2008.
- Everyone in the Room is a Representive of the World at Large. Letterpress. Fort Collins, CO: Bonfire Press, 2007.
- Imitating. London: Leafe Press, 2004.
- Exercises. New York: 811 Books, 2004.
- Hotel Faust. Sheffield/Cheltenham, England: West House Books/Gratton Street Irregulars, 2001.
- Boxes. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books (now Mindmade Books, 2001.
- Fraction Anthems. New York: 811 Books, 1999.
Edited book
- Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing, anthology co-edited with Rebecca Wolff. Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2007.
- Verse Magazine, 25-page selection from Mercury Vectors, Summer 2009.
- Selection of and afterword for previously unpublished poems by Barbara Guest, Chicago Review special triple issue on Guest, http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/index_53_4.shtml
- Individual poems have appeared in Verse, Cypress, Big Bell, Black Clock, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, The Gig, The Hat, How2, New Review, Shearsman and Soft Targets, among others.
- Poets on Teaching (Iowa University Press, forthcoming 2010)
- Starting Today: Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days (Iowa University Press, forthcoming 2009)
- Gurlesque (Saturnalia 2009)
- 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)
- The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800 to the Present (Scribner 2008).
- Starting Today: Poems for the First Hundred Days, day 52 (Spring 2009), http://100dayspoems.blogspot.com/2009/03/day-52-catherine-wagner.html
- Textsound (Spring 2008): mp3 sound recordings of “Coming and I did not run away,” “Well in your chasm of faith,” http://textsound.org
- Action Yes (Summer 2006), three poems, http://www.actionyes.org/issue2/idaho/wagner/wagner-poem3.html
- Boston Review, http://bostonreview.net/BR26.6/wagner.html
- “Induce,” Shearsman (No. 57, Spring 2003), http://wwwshearsman.com/pages/magazine/back_issues/shearsman57/wagner1.html
- “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 (Spring 2003), www.gutcult.com
- Contemporary Women’s Experimental Poetry Festival, Cambridge 2006, archived on How2 web site, http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_1/cambridge/index.html
- Tom Orange, "On Writing with Catherine Wagner": reading and interview at Vanderbilt University, http://discoverarchive.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/759
- Zoe Ward, “An Interview with Catherine Wagner," Bookslut (June 2007), http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_06_011222.php
- “To Breed or Not To Breed,” interview on Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Bearing and Child-Rearing, "To the Best of Our Knowledge” (May 2007), syndicated for National Public Radio, http://www.wpr.org/book/realaud.html
- Soundeye: The Cork International Poetry Festival, archived at Meshworks, http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/meshworks/ (July 2005).
- Leonard Schwartz, "Cross-Cultural Poetics, reading and interview at Evergreen State College (Fall 2005), archived at Pennsound 98 and 102, http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/XCP.html
- Review of Harryette Mullen’s Recyclopedia, Chicago Review (Winter 2007), http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/index_53_2_3.shtml
- "Dim Sum" note on "Numbers Trouble" controversy on Delirous Hem (2008), http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2008/02/dim-sum-catherine-wagner.html
- “The Politics of Meter,” Academy of American Poets Web site (January 2005), www.poets.org
- "On In the Pines," note on Alice Notley for "Constellation: Alice Notley" (Fall 2008), http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-in-pines.html
Other
Poems and essays appear in the following anthologies:
Web Publications: Poems
Readings and interviews
Essays/reviews
Work in Progress
Cathy is writing an epic romance tentatively titled Mercury Vectors, continuing A Day, a 20-year line-a-day book project, and editing a manuscript of Barbara Guest’s unpublished 1960s poems.
See Cathy’s profile on Miami University’s Creative Writing Program website:
http://www.units.muohio.edu/creativewriting/faculty/wagnerc.html