Catherine Bowman (born in
El Paso, Texas
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) is an American
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...
.
Her most recent poetry collection is ''Can I Finish, Please?'' (Four Way Books, 2016), and her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''The Best American Poetry, TriQuarterly, River Styx, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Times, Crazyhorse, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review,'' and in six editions of
The Best American Poetry
''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.
Background
The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...
. Her honors include fellowships from
Yaddo
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and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Bowman is a full professor in the Creative Writing Program at
Indiana University
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Campuses
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, and also teaches at the
Fine Arts Work Center
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in Provincetown. She lives in
Bloomington, Indiana
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.
Honors
* 1994
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
* Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize
* Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas
* 1990
New York Foundation for the Arts
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Fellowship in Poetry
Published works
Full-length poetry collections
* ''Can I Finish, Please?'' (Four Way Books, 2016)
* ''The Plath Cabinet'' (Four Way Books, 2009)
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Anthologies edited
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Further reading
*''Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists'' featuring Catherine Bowman. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson (
Trinity University Press, 2008).
References
External links
''Ploughshares ''
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Living people
People from El Paso, Texas
Indiana University faculty
Poets from Texas
Writers from Bloomington, Indiana
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women poets
Poets from Indiana
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers
American women academics