Catherine Wagner (poet)
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Catherine Wagner (born 1969 in
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) is an American
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and academic.


Life

Wagner lived in Asia and the Middle East until 1977, when her family moved to
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. She graduated from
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,
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(MFA, 1994), and
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(PhD, 2000). Wagner is the author of ''Miss America'' (2001), ''Macular Hole'' (2004), ''My New Job'' (2009), and ''Nervous Device'' (2012). Her work has appeared in anthologies including ''The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry'' (2012 edition), ''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'', ''Best American Experimental Writing 2015'' among others. She is professor of English at
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in Oxford, Ohio.


Awards


Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship
(1990) * Teaching-Writing Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1992-1994 * Steffensen Cannon Fellowship, University of Utah, 1997-1999


Works


Poetry

*''Of Course''. New York: Fence Books, 2020. *''Nervous Device''. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2012. *''My New Job''. New York: Fence Books, 2009. *''Macular Hole''. New York: Fence Books, 2004. *''Miss America''. New York: Fence Books, 2001.


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''. Nottingham, England: 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



''Poetic Labor Project'', July 2012

''Evening May Come'', Issue 9, September 2011
Selection of and commentary on previously unpublished poems by Barbara Guest
''Chicago Review'' Barbara Guest issue
Review of Harryette Mullen’s ''Recyclopedia''
''Chicago Review'', Winter 2007


Editing

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References


External links


Catherine Wagner PennSound pageThree poems, ''Lana Turner'', Fall 2012''The Conversant,'' "Virginia Konchan with Cathy Wagner," interview, April 2013Cross-Cultural Poetics interview with Leonard Schwartz, February 21, 2013"An Interview with Catherine Wagner", ''Bookslut'', June 2007Archive of the Now page
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100615010452/http://bostonreview.net/BR26.6/wagner.html "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 2009Catherine Wagner's City Lights Author's page
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