Catherine Pierce is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi and the author of four books of poems, most recently Danger Days (Saturnalia 2020). Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize anthology, The Nation, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets, she teaches at Mississippi State University.

Other poems by Catherine Pierce in Verse Daily:
May 23, 2024:   "Abecedarian for the Power Outage" "Absolute, the sudden silence—the fan stops..."
March 5, 2022:   "Probably It Will Be Summer Again" "one of these days, and if it is I'll swim..."
June 15, 2021:   "We Live in the Most Exquisite Terrarium" "The fresh macadam is glossed with rain..."
March 30, 2021:   "Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals" "All frantic and drunk with new warmth, the bees..."
August 28, 2020:   "If/When" "The poem I planned to write..."
February 4, 2020:   "Entreaty" "Dear spring, commit. Burst..."
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...."

Other poems on the web by Catherine Pierce:
"I Wonder if the Guy Who Catcalled Me in the Blockbuster Parking Lot When I Was 15 Ever Thinks About That"
"How Becoming a Mother Is Like Space Travel"
"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.

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