Author Archives: Caitlin

Spontaneous Poetry Marathon

So I have decided to do a Poetry Marathon tomorrow. If you want to read about all the time I spent preparing for the last one you can follow this link. If you want to know how much time I … Continue reading

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Incident Reports from the Vanishing

My second chapbook, Incident Reports from the Vanishing is forthcoming sometime this summer. I do not exactly know when as there has been some art delays, but there has also been some elements of the work progressing ahead of schedule. … Continue reading

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Fall News Update

I have written three entries to this blog in the last couple of months, none of which I have posted. The editors in my head have been working over time lately. When my husband first met me, he thought I … Continue reading

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Poetry, Popularity, and Image

Ever since I realized poetry was a niche market, I have wanted to make it less of one.  Of course I cannot change that on my own, but if I can do anything to make poetry a little more accessible … Continue reading

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Blog Hop: Jennifer Faylor

Jennifer Faylor is a very gifted poet. She wrote the most memorable poem about supermarkets, that I have ever read. Her poetry is thoughtful and mysterious. She has her first chapbook coming out and I am very excited about this. … Continue reading

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Blog Hop: Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick

            I heard Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick read at Sarah Lawrence College before I met her, and her poems, strange and yet sensical, impressed me. We did a few workshops together in Graduate school where she … Continue reading

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Blog Hop: The Next Big Thing

I want to thank the lovely and very talented Jennifer Bullis for ‘tagging’ me into this blog hop, and negotiating me into talking about “The Next Big Thing” I’m working on in my writing. At the time I thought I … Continue reading

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Assorted News

I have not updated my blog since last year, a much larger break then usual. However it has been an eventful year so far. I have had more dental work then I care to recount. More importantly I am teaching … Continue reading

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Writing Group

I have been a member of a variety of writing groups for the last ten years. I was a member of an university associated writing group with a semi open door policy, a ‘secret writing group’, groups with a strong … Continue reading

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Omnivorous Reader

I have been accused of being an indiscriminate reader. While in graduate school, friends teased me about reading the Twilight books years earlier. I had read them because I wanted to see what my younger cousins were addicted to. I … Continue reading

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