Cathy Wagner
Education
- Ph.D., University of Utah, 2000
- MFA, University of Iowa, 1994
- B.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1991
Research and Teaching Interests
- Creative writing
- Poetry writing
- Contemporary and modern American poetry and poetics
- Contemporary and modern British poetry and poetics
- Poetry and politics
Selected Publications
Books
- Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures, with Suzanne McCullagh, Luis Pradanos-Garcia, and Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan. Lexington Books, 2020
- Of Course. Hudson, NY: Fence Books, 2020.
- Nervous Device. Spotlight Series in Poetry, City Lights Books, 2012.
- My New Job. New York: Fence Books, 2009.
- Macular Hole. New York: Fence Books, 2004.
- Miss America. New York: Fence Books, 2001.
Chapbooks
- Bornt. Miniature handmade chapbook. Schaffhausen, Switzerland: Dusie Press, 2009.
- Articulate How. Washington, DC: Big Game Books, 2008.
- Hole in the Ground. Oxford, OH: Slack Buddha Press, 2008.
- Everyone in the Room is a Representive of the World at Large. Letterpress. Fort Collins, CO: Bonfire Press, 2007.
- Imitating. London: Leafe Press, 2004.
- Exercises. New York: 811 Books, 2004.
- Hotel Faust. Sheffield/Cheltenham, England: West House Books/Gratton Street Irregulars, 2001.
- Boxes. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books (now Mindmade Books, 2001.
- Fraction Anthems. New York: 811 Books, 1999.
Edited Book
- Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing, anthology co-edited with Rebecca Wolff. Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2007.
Selected anthology publications:
- “Chicken,” Penguin Anthology of the Prose Poem, ed. Jeremy Noel-Tod, London: Penguin, 2018.
- Best American Experimental Writing (BAX), ed. Douglas Kearney, Wesleyan University Press, 2017.
- The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, ed. Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, and Patricia Smith, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2017.
- Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK, Emily Critchley, ed., Hastings, UK: Reality Street Editions, 2015.
- The Volta Book of Poets, ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Sidebrow Books, 2015.
- Devouring the Green: Fear of a Human Planet, ed. Sam Witt, Jaded Ibis Press, 2015.
- Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, second edition, ed. Paul Hoover (Norton, 2013)
- Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK, second edition, ed. Emily Critchley (Reality Street Editions, UK, 2013),
- The Arcadia Project, ed. Joshua Corey and G. C. Waldrep (Ahsahta Press, 2012)
- The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare, ed. Sharmila Cohen and Paul Legault (Nightboat Books, 2012)
- Poets on Teaching (Iowa University Press, 2010)
- Starting Today: Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days (Iowa University Press, 2009)
- Gurlesque (Saturnalia 2009)
- State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (Wave 2008)
- A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence 2008)
- Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Verse 2004)
- The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800 to the Present (Scribner 2008).
Selected Poems Online
Poems
- “Fantasizing During” and excerpts from “Of Course”: “Fweeep or ckkk,” “An I was built,” “What nucleates sky ice,” “In my mother’s belly,” “Techno-optimist,” https://brooklynrail.org/2019/
05/poetry/three-wagner, Brooklyn Rail (May 2019) - “The city has sex with Megan,” “Speech by a flaneur—no, a flaneuse,” https://www.poetryfoundation.
org/poetrymagazine/issue/ 149682/may-2019 Poetry (May 2019) - “You are part of the,” “English is 99% attached to a rock,” “You Are,” “Bunny slippers,” https://580split.org/issue/
breach/#fourpoems 580 Split, Issue 21 (Spring 2019) - 7 poems: “Six Poems for Sketchual Violets,” “Rising Action,” https://www.chicagoreview.org/
metoo-catherine-wagner/ Chicago Review, "#MeToo: A Poetry Collective" (September 2018) - "Thanksgiving Is Over," "Lucky Thing,” https://www.benningtonreview.
org/catherine-wagner Bennington Review, Issue 4 (December 2017) - “A Rose for George,” “Blink Whole Head in Identificatory Trance,” https://brooklynrail.org/2011/
10/poetry/two-wagner-oct11 Brooklyn Rail (October 2011) - "Poet's Sampler" https://bostonreview.net/
poetry/catherine-wagner-poets- sampler-catherine-wagner chosen by Rae Armantrout, Boston Review (December 2001/January 2002)
Essays/Articles
- “The Exploit: Affective Labor and Poetry at the University,” Work in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, ed. Jo Lindsay Walton and Ed Luker, Palgrave 2019
- “Naming Names in the Fabulous Real: A Letter to the New Narrator," From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice, ed. Rob Halpern and Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Oakland CA: ON: Contemporary Practice,2017
- “Imperial Partitioning in the Neoliberal University,” with T. Kulbaga and J. Cohen, World Social and Economic Review of Contemporary Policy Issues, Issue 8: "The Political Economy of the University INC,” 60–77, April 2017
- “Messing with the Beholder: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Embedded Conceptualism,” part of feature, “Conceptual Writing (Plural and Global) and Other Cultural Productions,” ed. Divya Victor, Jacket 2, 2016
- “I Am a Poet and I Have,” Poetic Labor Project (July 2012)
Archived Performances
Grants and Awards
- "Writing Lab" Residency, Mount Tremper Arts Foundation, Woodstock, MA, October 2019
- Residency, Eliot House, Gloucester, MA, June 2018
- Research Collaborative Grant for Environmental Humanities Working Group, Humanities Center, Miami University, 2018
- Altman Fellowship, Humanities Center, Miami University, 2017
Work in Progress
Wagner is writing essays on academic labor and poems toward a new manuscript and is co-editing a collection of environmental humanities essays, "Contesting Extinctions: Critical Relationality, Regenerative Futures."