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Catherine Pierce
@catherinepierce.bsky.social
Poems & essays * Former Poet Laureate of Mississippi, now Dweller of Delaware * Four books, most recently DANGER DAYS (Saturnalia 2020) * Can be found looking at trees * catherinepiercepoet.com * studioandcraft.com
This summer through Studio & Craft: Creative Burst sessions! These are low-stakes-but-high-focus sessions to kickstart new work or move the needle on work in progress. An optional prompt will be provided at each session.

Open to writers of all genres and experience levels!

studioandcraft.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This June I'll be offering a virtual 4-week workshop through Studio & Craft--if you're looking for community, feedback, prompts, and a balance of structure and flexibility, please join us! Workshop caps at 10 participants.

Questions? Please reach out!

studioandcraft.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hoping to jumpstart some new poems this summer? Looking for a writing community or focused feedback? Today I'm launching Studio & Craft, a poetry community offering generative sessions, workshops, and manuscript consultations!
Studio & Craft
Studio & Craft is a poetry community offering generative sessions, workshops, and manuscript consultations.
www.studioandcraft.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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If everything ends,

why are you sharpening your sorrow

—Martha Silano
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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from Dark Fields of the Republic. W.W. Norton, 1995.
January 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Seems like a good day to share this poem, originally published in About Place journal. Here's to turning over the mussel shells.
January 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Dorianne Laux w/ the plainspoken elegance
January 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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A little Jane Hirschfield for a tender, tender Wednesday.
November 27, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Katy Didden
November 16, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Happy National Poetry Month! We’ve got a kickstarter for @riverriverbooks.bsky.social, full of good rewards, from digital copies to custom poems and manuscript consultations! Share with a friend? 🌊🌊 Help us continue to get poetry to readers. Support the places you love, y’all 📚💙
River River Books: Poetry Distribution
Help us ship poetry to independent bookstores, libraries, and readers.
www.kickstarter.com
April 1, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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thx to poem-a-day & steve bellin-oka for choosing to run this new one of mine today💙
poets.org/poem/what-i-...
November 20, 2023 at 5:50 PM
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perhaps you too need this Jenny Browne poem today…
November 13, 2023 at 1:46 AM
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Grateful to Charif Shanahan for guest editing this impressive issue of Poetry magazine dedicated to lineage & influence, & very happy to have 2 new poems of my own included among the dazzling array of poems here.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
November 2, 2023 at 11:18 AM
Happy to have two poems in the new Water~Stone Review, including this one about a formative moment in a Blockbuster parking lot.
October 30, 2023 at 5:02 PM
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One of three short poems by me in the new issue of Smartish Pace.
October 25, 2023 at 12:29 PM
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We are now open for submissions through the end of the month & look forward to seeing your work that explores themes of friendship in the more-than-human world
Submissions — EcoTheo Collective
www.ecotheo.org
October 16, 2023 at 2:20 PM
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This incredibly ecologically aware love poem from Stacey Balkun ✨
October 10, 2023 at 4:26 PM
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“He’s made of rage and tinted glass, and we’re / made of desire and what if and what I want / to say is, Dude, we have a room, but we / got hungry. Every three days we have to eat / or get mimosas or get yelled at by you.” —Andrea Cohen, “Springfield” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Springfield”
“Get a room, the dude in the blue Camaro yells.”
www.newyorker.com
October 10, 2023 at 1:07 PM
New poems in the new Waxwing! Here's one. (Also, whew, this place seems much better than the other place...)
October 6, 2023 at 7:20 PM