Catherine Wagner
Encyclopedia
Life
Wagner lived in Asia and the Middle East until 1977, when her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland.She graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a public university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The University, often referred to as UTC or simply "Chattanooga" , is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System; the others being in...
, University of Iowa
University of Iowa
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(MFA, 1994), and University of Utah
University of Utah
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(PhD, 2000).
She teaches at Miami University
Miami University
Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S...
in Oxford, Ohio.
Her work has appeared in 1913, Verse, Plantarchy, Big Bell, Black Clock, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review, Fence, Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, The Gig, The Hat, How2, New Review, Shearsman, Soft Targets, and Textsound, and in the anthologies Poets on Teaching, Starting Today: Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days, Gurlesque, State of the Union: 50 Political Poems, A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years, and The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800 to the Present, among others.
Awards
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship (1990)
Poetry
- "My What to Replace My"; "Who Admitted You?"; "An Hendy Hap"; "There Was a Place in the Brain, a Red Knot"; "The Divinity of Man", Boston Review, December 2001/January 2002
- Delirious Hem/Dusie Delirious Adventskalendar, December 2009
- My New Job. New York: Fence Books, 2009
- Macular Hole. New York: Fence Books, 2004
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 Representative 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.
Criticism
- Review of Harryette Mullen’s Recyclopedia, Chicago Review, Winter 2007
- Selection of and commentary on previously unpublished poems by Barbara Guest, Chicago Review Barbara Guest issue