About Catherine Pierce and 32 Poems

Today's poem is "Entreaty"

from 32 Poems

Catherine Pierce is the author of three books of poems, most recently The Tornado Is the World (Saturnalia 2016); her new book, Danger Days, is forthcoming in 2020. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, the New York Times, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere, and has won a Pushcart Prize. A 2019 NEA Fellow, she co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.
Other poems by Catherine Pierce in Verse Daily:
February 18, 2019: "Poem for the Woods" "Not as I would dream them now, not with growls..."
May 22, 2017: "The Town Dreams the Tornado Apologizes" "And then we woke up. And our uncles..."
October 7, 2014: "The Tornado Wants a Companion" "No one wants the whirling all the time...."
September 8, 2008: "The Guidance Counselor to the Girl" "The test suggests an aptitude for solitary work..."
June 24, 2008: "'This is Funny'" "Not the whiskey, though that, too..."
July 10, 2004: "Nor Hell a Fury" "I am the step that creaks...."
Books by Catherine Pierce:

Other poems on the web by Catherine Pierce:
"All the Dead Animals"
"In Praise of the Horror Movie"
"I Kept Getting Books about Birds"
"Anthropocene Pastoral"
Three poems
"Poem from the Hidden Passage"
"Chadwick Lake, 8:15 a.m."
"Disaster Work"
"The Tornado Visits the Town"
"Narrative Theory"
Two poems
Two poems
"Last Meal"
"Poem: Precautions"
"Dear Day,"
"Love Poem To America"
Four poems
"This Is Not an Elegy"
"Poem from the Girls We Were"
"Instinct"
Two poems
"Reading Faulkner at 17, You Foresee Your Reckoning"
"I Go Back to Ohio"
Catherine Pierce's Website.
Catherine Pierce on Twitter.
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Other poems from 32 Poems in Verse Daily:
February 3, 2020: "The Elect" by Catherine Pierce
March 28, 2017: "Love Poem" by Maggie Smith
September 26, 2016: "Vane" by Catherine Pierce
September 23, 2016: "Prisoners' Parable of the Flood" by Susannah Nevison
January 19, 2016: "Father" by Jessica Piazza
January 18, 2016: "Summer" by Randall Mann
November 17, 2015: "Smetana" by Bruce Bond
October 17, 2013: "Self-Portrait with Quarry" by Elisabeth Murawski
October 16, 2013: "The Belt" by Noah Kucij
September 12, 2012: "Passion Flower" by Melissa Apperson
September 11, 2012: "Wandering Albatross" by Suzanne Zweizig
August 24, 2011: "Alley" by Jeffery L. Bahr
January 7, 2011: "Late" by Sidney Wade
January 6, 2011: "Dictator" by Melissa Stein
February 8, 2010: "Praise Nothing" by Joshua Robbins
June 25, 2009: "Bats in the Attic" by Chelsea Rathburn
June 23, 2009: "Rip Cord" by Jamie Thomas
February 22, 2009: "Bats in the Attic" by Anthony Walton
February 21, 2009: "The Pencil" by Billy Collins
April 22, 2007: "Thin Ice" by Randall Stiffler
November 30, 2005: "Cod" by David Roderick
May 16, 2005: "Bird Advice" Jill Alexander Essbaum
May 14, 2005: "Parting Shot" Brendan O'Connor
May 3, 2005: "Boat" Carol Frost
February 9, 2005: "Fabulous Ones" by Jeffrey Thomson
February 8, 2005: "Ultrasound" by A. E. Stallings
February 7, 2005: "Year of the Blues" by A. C. Schaffer
June 29, 2004: "Bonfire" by Julie Funderburk
June 28, 2004: "Ill-Made Almighty" by Heather McHugh
January 3, 2004: "Vane Countries" by Geoffrey Brock
December 31, 2003: "Litany for Treetops" by C. J. Sage
July 15, 2003: "The Trouble with Being Born" by Christina Davis
July 14, 2003: "Outer Banks (II)" by Christian Wiman
July 9, 2003: "Sonnet" by Kimberly Johnson

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