Catherine Abbey Hodges is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Empty Me Full (Gunpowder Press, 2024), and two chapbooks. Her first book, Instead of Sadness, won the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize; recent poems appear in such venues as Narrative, Plume, SALT, Plant-Human Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, and CALYX. English Professor Emeritus at Porterville College, Catherine writes, teaches privately, and collaborates with musician Rob Hodges on ancestral Yokuts land.

Other poems on the web by Catherine Abbey Hodges:
"How to Begin"
Three poems

Catherine Abbey Hodges's Website.

About Empty Me Full:

"Empty Me Full is an invitation to intimate conversation with a wise and affectionate seeker. Here is a wit-laced and vulnerable wondering. In poems that turn grief to awe and sadness to wonder, the poet celebrates our stunning, imperfect lives."
—Barbara Rockman

"This beautifully paced book is a lovely, inviting incantation to notice, to be aware, to live this world 'a little more awake,' and to always query, 'how did we / get here? And can we stay forever?'
—Jen Karetnick

"Here, Catherine Abbey Hodges tenderly interrogates the workings of time. She travels with remarkable ease through the liminal corridors between life and death, how we remember, and what we can know."
—Donna Spruijt-Metz