About Cati Porter and Rattle

Today's poem is "In the Checkout Line at Rite Aid,"

from Rattle

Cati Porter is the author of ten poetry collections, including The Body at a Loss (CavanKerry Press, 2019) and Novel (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022). Her poems and essays have been published in Rattle, Shark Reef, Salon, Zocalo Public Square, table//FEAST, Pratik, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Your Daily Poem, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Hags on Fire, and elsewhere. She lives in Inland Southern California with her family where she runs Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and directs Inlandia Institute, a literary nonprofit.
Other poems by Cati Porter in Verse Daily:
October 1, 2016: "What It's Like to Be a Girl." "Cotton balls and cotton swabs and soft cotton underwear and pin curls..."
Books by Cati Porter:

Other poems on the web by Cati Porter:
Two poems
Three poems
"Go On, Stay"
Four poems
Cati Porter's Website.
Cati Porter on Twitter.
About Rattle:

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September 16, 2021: "Fat Girl Trilonnet" by Stephanie Rogers
January 24, 2021: "Homestead" by Alice Pettway
January 23, 2020: "Lockdown Puzzle: Hokusai's Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by A. E. Stallings
January 22, 2020: "Because Wolves Are A Protected Species, This One Is Merely Interrogated" by Ron Koertge
October 28, 2020: "Note to Self" by David Mason
October 27, 2020: "Poetry Workshop" by Vivian Shipley
October 26, 2020: "My Love, Though the Smart Speaker Is Spying on Us" by Jeffrey Morgan
July 29, 2020: "Asterisks" by Martin Vest
July 28, 2020: "The Fact That There's A Snake Tunneling Through My Grass Doesn't Make The Parting Of The Blades Any Less Beautiful." by Tom C. Hunley
July 27, 2020: "Peeling Potatoes in Puerto Vallarta" by Lynne Knight
May 25, 2020: "Triolets on a Dune Shack" by Carolyne Wright
May 23, 2020: "The Cow I Didn't Eat" by Lollie Butler
May 22, 2020: "Chernobyl" by George Bilgere
November 25, 2019: "If You Were to Ask Me the State of My Country..." by Chaun Ballard
October 24, 2019: "What My Children Remember" by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
October 23, 2019: "Chasing Home" by Ifeoluwa Ayandele
October 22, 2019: "Sorrow" by Kwame Dawes
September 9, 2019: "Full Disclosure" by Alan C. Fox
September 8, 2019: "In Which I Get Out of a Speeding Ticket" by Carol Potter
February 9, 2019: "Nothing Is Fine" Susan Paris
March 17, 2017: "Why We Climb Mountains" by Marti Noel
March 16, 2017: "Even Rottweilers Sing" by Tim Amsden
November 30, 2016: "Anthem" by Elaine Sexton
November 29, 2016: "Redress" by Wendy Videlock
April 5, 2016: "Stairway to Heaven Sonnet" by Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton
April 3, 2016: "Apron Strings" by Beth Gylys
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August 9, 2014: "Watch" by Mike White
November 8, 2013: "Tabula Rasa" by Matthew Wimberley
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November 4, 2013: "Universe in the Key of Matryoshka" by Ronnie K. Stephens

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