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Poems Available Online

“FLANNERY AT ANDALUSIA” and “NOT IT“ / 32 Poems, Issue No. 40

  • An essay about “Not It” by poet, critic, and essayist Forester McClatchey appears in the 32 Poems Marginalia Series. To read McClatchey’s piece, which combines lyrical nonfiction with traditional literary analysis, you can click here

“CARNIVAL“ / The Guardian Poem of the Week Column (reprinted from Unsplendid)

  • The poem appears in The Guardian along with a close reading by the column’s editor Carol Rumens, and you can check out the feature by clicking on the poem’s title above

“WISH” / The Yale Review (Winner of the Frost Farm Poetry Prize)

  • “Wish” has also been featured on Poetry Daily
  • You can read commentary about “Wish” by the judge of the Frost Farm Poetry Prize, along with more information about the award, by clicking here and clicking here
  • “Wish” has been reprinted in The East Hampton Star. You can read it by clicking here

“THE GHOST HUNTER” / The Irish Times (Poem of the Week)

“THE DRESS CODE“ / The Yale Review (recipient of a Pushcart Special Mention in the 2019 edition of The Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses)

“THE FOLEY ARTIST’S APPRENTICE“ / The Atlantic (reprinted in The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop and The Best Emerging Poets)

“CRADLE THIEF” / The New Criterion 

  • You can read “Cradle Thief” in American Life in Poetry, along with an introduction by former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, by clicking here
  • You can also read “Cradle Thief” on the Poetry Foundation website by clicking here

“A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BIKINI” / The Raintown Review (reprinted in The Best Emerging Poets and The Southern Poetry Anthology, and featured through the PBS NewsHour Poetry Series)

“THIRTEEN” / Unsplendid (reprinted in Best New Poets, Writers Among Us, and The Best Emerging Poets)

“THE EDITOR’S EX” / The Poetry Foundation (featured in the Poem of the Day Series)

“THE DOLL MUSEUM” / The Warwick Review (reprinted in Calyx, The Southern Poetry Anthology, The Best Emerging Poets, and The Doll Collection)

  • You can read “The Doll Museum” in American Life in Poetry, along with an introduction by former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, by clicking here
  • You can listen to “The Doll Museum” featured on 91.3 WYSO (an NPR affiliate in Ohio) by clicking here
  • You can also read “The Doll Museum” on the Poetry Foundation website by clicking here

“SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MONKEYS” / The Threepenny Review (reprinted in The Best Emerging Poets)

“THE BREAKFAST IN HEIDELBERG SERIES” / Boston Review (reprinted in Writers Among Us)

“IF SIEGFRIED AND ROY HAD NEVER MET” / Black Warrior Review (reprinted in The Best Emerging Poets)

“IF YOU SHOP FOR A DOOR KNOCKER WHILE WRITING A THESIS ON POST-STRUCTURALIST LITERARY THEORY” / Fugue

“AFTER CONFESSION” / Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (originally published as “Afterward”)

“IN THE BUSH”/ Birmingham Poetry Review (to read Samuel Zelitch’s commentary on the relationship between the sonic and thematic aspects of “In The Bush,” you can click here)

“FRAGMENT 31” / Unsplenidd

“PAGE SIX” / The Lyric

Anthologies Featuring Caitlin’s Poetry 

A Constellation of Kisses 

Caitlin’s work appears in A Constellation of Kisses, an anthology published through Terrapin Books. The book includes poets Kim Addonizio, Ellen Bass, Tim Seibles, Dorianne Laux, David Kirby, and others. To read more about it and purchase a copy, you can click here

The Best Emerging Poets 

Caitlin appears as one of seven featured poets in the 2013 edition of The Best Emerging Poets. The anthology includes poets Chloe Honum, Binh Nguyen, Dariel Suarez, and others. To read more about it and purchase a copy, you can click here

The Southern Poetry Anthology

Three of Caitlin’s poems appear in Volume VII of The Southern Poetry Anthology, edited by William Wright. The Southern Poetry Anthology “aspires to provide readers with a documentary-like survey of the best poetry being written in the American South at the present moment.” To read more about the anthology series, you can click here, and you can visit the book’s Amazon page by clicking here

The Best New Poets Anthology

Caitlin’s work appears in the 2009 edition of the Best New Poets series, an annual anthology of fifty poems by emerging writers (University of Virginia Press). Contributors include Roger Reeves, Alex Dimitrov, Melissa Stein, Katy Didden, Eric Weinstein, and Kelly Davio. Kim Addonizio served as the 2009 guest editor. To learn more about the anthology, you can click here, and you can visit the book’s Amazon page by clicking here

The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop

Caitlin’s work appears in The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop, edited by Diane Lockward. The book comprises “a collection of poems, prompts, craft tips, and interviews for aspiring and practicing poets.” Contributors include Jane Hirshfield, Stanley Plumly, Marilyn Hacker, Linda Pastan, and Jeffrey McDaniel. To learn more about the book on the publisher’s website, you can click here, and you can visit the book’s Amazon page by clicking here

So Little Time

Caitlin’s work appears in So Little Time, an anthology  published by Green Writers Press. Edited by poet Greg Delanty and featuring an introduction by John Elder, the book gathers poems, photographs, and essays centered on environmental issues. Contributors include Grace Paley, Seamus Heaney, Hayden Carruth, Didi Jackson, Jean Valentine, and Ellen Bryant Voigt. As it says on the Green Writers Press website, “So Little Time is a revolving door of political activism, spirituality, nature, and humanity. It is a call to action, where urgency meets poetry in no uncertain terms.” To learn more about the anthology on the publisher’s blog, you can click here, and you can visit the book’s Amazon page by clicking here

The Golden Shovel Anthology

Caitlin’s work appears in The Golden Shovel Anthology, edited by Patricia Smith, Ravi Shankar, and Peter Kahn (University of Arkansas Press). The anthology features poems written in a new form known as “The Golden Shovel,” which was created by Terrance Hayes in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks. Contributors include Rita Dove, Edward Hirsch, Jericho Brown, Stephen Dunn, Major Jackson, and Jean Valentine. To learn more about the book and purchase a copy, you can click here. You can also read additional information about it on the Poetry Foundation website by clicking here

The Best of the Raintown Review

Caitlin’s work has been chosen for inclusion in The Best of the Raintown Review (Barefoot Muse Press). Edited by Anna Evans, Quincy Lehr, and Jeff Holt, the anthology gathers a selection of pieces published in The Raintown Review, one of the longest running print journals with an emphasis on metrical and formal poetry.  Contributors to the anthology include Erica Dawson, Rachel Hadas, Rob Griffith, Jehanne Dubrow and Rowan Ricardo Phillips. To visit the book’s Amazon page, you can click here

Bared: An Anthology

Caitlin’s work appears in Bared, an anthology published through Les Femmes Folles Books. Edited by Laura Madeline Wiseman, the collection features poetry and visual art on the subject of breasts: “Poets and artists bare their best breasts clad in bras, bare-chested, or both to boast their barbaric yawps in poems, in paint, in pictures, and art.” Contributors include Alicia Ostriker, Denise Duhamel, Allison Joseph, and Maura Seaton. To visit the book’s Amazon page, you can click here

The Doll Collection

Caitlin’s work appears in The Doll Collection, an anthology published by Terrapin Books. Contributors include David Trinidad, Denise Duhamel, Paula Bohince, Lee Upton, Jeffrey Harrison, and Cecilia Woloch. To read more about the anthology on the publisher’s website, you can click here,  and you can visit the book’s Amazon page by clicking here

American Creative Writers On Class

Caitlin’s work appears in an anthology titled American Creative Writers On Class, published through Big Wonderful Press (edited by Shelly Reed). The book features poetry and non-fiction on the subject of class in America. Contributors include Matthea Harvey, Dorianne Laux, Oliver de la Paz, and Laura McCullough. To read about the book on the publisher’s blog, you can click here, and you can visit the book’s Amazon page by clicking here

Writers Among Us

Caitlin’s work appears in Writers Among Us, an anthology of works by writers who have held the Writer-In-Residence position at St. Albans School in Washington, DC. Contributors include Curtis Sittenfeld, Matthew Klam, Will Blythe, and James Hoch. To learn more about the book, you can click here

Naming The Baby: The Best of the Claremont Review

One of Caitlin’s early poems has been anthologized in Naming The Baby: The Best of the Claremont Review, published by Orca Books. From the Orca Books website: “Naming the Baby celebrates the best from the first thirty issues of the Claremont Review. This anthology features the poetry and fiction and some of the most talented adolescent writers of the past fifteen years, many of whom have gone on to careers in writing and whose novels and poems now grace bookshelves in bookstores across the continent.” To learn more about the anthology, you can click here, and you can visit the book’s Amazon page by clicking here

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