News & Highlights

Caitlin’s debut poetry manuscript “The Winding Key” has been selected as a National Poetry Series Finalist

Caitlin’s poem “Backward Sonnet for a Forward Thinker,” which was originally featured in Issue 32 of Rattle, has been selected from the journal’s archives to appear in the Rattle Daily Poem Series. To read the poem, you can click here

Caitlin’s poem “Her Selfie-Self” appears in Zócalo Public Square along with an introduction by poet Daniel Tobin, who writes:

“With remarkable metaphorical wit and formal ingenuity, Caitlin Doyle’s ‘Her Selfie-Self’ elaborates progressively a simultaneously rueful and insouciant exploded view of the self’s projected self-distortion… As a snapshot for our time, the poem, dare I say, fearlessly clicks.”

Caitlin’s work is forthcoming in Marginalia Review of Books as part of a feature titled “Da la Musique Avant Toute Chose: Poets on the Sounds of Poetry,” which will present, as described by MRB’s Poetry Editor Amit Majmudar, poems by “six of the most musically astute poets at work today in American Poetry.” 

Caitlin’s work has recently appeared in The Dark Horse Magazine, The Stinging Fly, and Poetry Ireland Review.

  • Caitlin’s work in the The Dark Horse Magazine (Issue 48) has been highlighted in the Nota Bene section of The Times Literary Supplement

Caitlin’s poem “Wish” was selected by Alice White for the 20th Anniversary of the “Read a Little Poetry” Series. In her introduction to the piece, White writes the following:

“When I first read “Wish,” I knew it would go in the internal anthology of poems I’ve committed to memory, to carry always, to carry me… “Wish” is a meticulously crafted, deceptively simple poem that feels like an incantation, a nursery rhyme, a riddle, a myth. Its well deepens with every reading…“

Caitlin has been selected for the Emerging Poet Feature Series at 32 Poems Magazine. The feature includes an introduction to her poetry, an interview, and a new poem. About Caitlin’s work, the magazine’s Associate Editor writes:

“Doyle’s poems are deeply attentive to the valences of meaning and sound in each word, giving them almost magical power. Upon repeated readings, they flower. It is as if Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience have been braided together, so that the child cannot escape the looming dark, just as the adult remains lulled by the sounds that first ordered their world.”

Caitlin interviewed Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon for Issue 16.2 of Literary Matters. They discussed the role of voice in poetry, the problem of cultural determinism in the context of a writer’s national identity, the importance of not getting in a poem’s way, and more. To read the interview, you can click here

  • In her capacity as Interviews Editor at Literary Matters, Caitlin has conversed with a variety of writers, including Don Paterson, Rita Dove, Carl Phillips, Adrian Matejka, Philip Schultz, Mary Jo Salter, Shane McCrae, Dana Gioia, and Amit Majmudar. To check out her full roster of author interviews in Literary Matters, you can click here

Caitlin joined the writing faculty of the LEDA Scholars Program (Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America) in 2023. She taught at LEDA’s Aspects of Leadership Summer Institute on the Princeton University campus. To read more about the LEDA Scholars Program, you can click here. To read more about the Aspects of Leadership Summer Institute, you can click here

Caitlin was selected as the recipient of the P.E.O Presidential Endowed Scholar Award. According to the P.E.O Foundation, those who receive P.E.O Scholar Awards are chosen for “their exceptional achievement and their potential for having a significant impact on society,” and the P.E.O Presidential Endowed Scholar Award, which is granted to only one recipient every two years, is “reserved for our finest scholars.”

  • An article about Caitlin’s selection for the P.E.O Presidential Endowed Scholar Award appeared in The Key Reporter. To read the article, which includes an interview with her and a detailed description of her endeavors as a poet, critic, teacher, editor, and librettist, you can click here

Caitlin has been interviewed about her work in a range of venues, including the 32 Poems Emerging Poets Series, the Identity Theory Interview Series, the Words With Writers Series, the National YoungArts Foundation, the Primal School Series, and the National Writers Series.

  • Sarah Rose Nordgren‘s interview with Caitlin, 32 Poems Emerging Poets Series: Available Here
  • Xinchen Li‘s interview with Caitlin, The Key Reporter: Available Here
  • J. Dee Cochran‘s interview with Caitlin, Identity Theory Series: Available Here
  • Marissa Bell Toffoli‘s interview with Caitlin, Words With Writers Series: Available Here
  • An interview with Caitlin conducted by the National YoungArts Foundation: Available Here
  • Hannah Lee Jones‘s interview with Caitlin, Primal School Series: Available Here
  • An interview with Caitlin conducted by the National Writers Series for their “Author Next Door” feature: Available Here

Caitlin joined the literary and academic community at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA, as Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Writer-In-Residence for the 2021/2022 academic year. An article about Caitlin’s Writer-In-Residence Reading at Washington & Jefferson College appears in W&J News. To read the piece, which also covers Caitlin’s background as a writer and teacher, you can click here.

Caitlin’s poem “Not It” has been featured on The Slowdown. The show’s host, Major Jackson, introduces and reads “Not It” on Episode 922. About the poem, Jackson says:

“Through a universal child’s game, today’s exquisite formally driven poem makes poignant observations about the challenges of adulting. One of them being that we eventually actualize as grownups and settle into our roles, however, not without those occasional feelings of loneliness, failure, and hard-earned victories…”

  • To read Jackson’s full introduction and listen to Episode 922 of The Slowdown, you can click here

Caitlin recently returned to the Frost Farm Poetry Conference in a faculty capacity. She held the role of 2023 Frost Farm Poet-In-Residence, which involved giving manuscript consultations and meeting with conference participants for one-on-one intensives centered on their work. Fellow faculty at the conference included Rhina Espaillat, Alfred Nicol, Meredith Bergman, and Midge Goldberg. To learn more about the conference, the course offerings, and the registration process, you can click here

Caitlin has been featured as the subject of articles, news stories, and profiles across a range of publications, including Bostonia, The East Hampton Star, The PBS NewsHour Online Poetry Series, The Irish Echo, The Irish Examiner, The University of Cincinnati Arts & Sciences News, Boston University Today, The East Hampton Press, W&J News, and others.

  • To read “Caitlin Doyle: Following in Robert Frost’s Footsteps,” an article about her selection as the winner of the Frost Farm Poetry Prize, in Bostonia, you can click here
  • To read “Doctoral Student’s Leadership Skills are Pure Poetry,” an article in the University of Cincinnati News about Caitlin’s receipt of the Presidential Medal of Graduate Student Excellence, you can click here
  • To read “BU’s Literary Lions Read Tonight,” an article in Boston University Today that discusses Caitlin’s participation as the Featured Poetry Alumna in the annual Boston University Faculty Reading, you can click here
  • To read “Doyle’s Star is Rising,” an article about Caitlin by Peter McDermott in The Irish Echo, you can click here
  • To read “Frost Farm Prize Announcement” on the Frost Farm Website, which announces Caitlin’s receipt of the award and includes contest judge Deborah Warren‘s statement about Caitlin’s winning poem, you can click here
  • To read “Poet and Doctoral Student Caitlin Doyle Wins Prestigious National Award,” an article about Caitlin’s work in The Key Reporter, you can click here
  • To Read “Poetic Sparks in the Hooley Tradition,” an article about Caitlin’s work by Irene Silverman in The East Hampton Star, you can click here
  • To read “Poet explores the explosive potential of the bikini,” a feature about Caitlin’s work by Mary Jo Brooks in the PBS NewsHour Online Poetry Series, you can click here
  • To read “Gathering Focus for Cork Literary Review,” an article in The Irish Examiner that discusses Caitlin background and her essay “Hungry Hills: Coming of Age as an Irish American Poet,” you can click here
  • To read “A Ringing Echo: The Poetry of Caitlin Doyle,” an article about Caitlin’s work in The Critical Flame, you can click here
  • To read “Acclaimed Poet Caitlin Doyle to Give Reading at W&J College” in the Washington & Jefferson News, you can click here
  • To read “Poet Caitlin Doyle Comes Home” in The East Hampton Press, an article about Caitlin’s selection as a Guild Hall Artist-In-Residence, you can click here
  • To read “UC Elliston Poet Wins Frost Farm Poetry Prize” in the University of Cincinnati News, you can click here
  • To read “UC Honors Grad Students with a Talent for Teaching,” a news piece about Caitlin’s receipt of the Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award, in the University of Cincinnati News, you can click here
  • To read “Sunday Poet: Caitlin Doyle,” a feature about Caitlin’s work by Michelle Aldredge in Gwarlingo, you can click here
  • To read “Four Emerging Poets to Watch,” an article in Stay Thirsty that highlights Caitlin’s work along with the work of poets Chloe Honum, Dariel Suarez, and Binh Nguyen, you can click here
  • Additional details about several of these articles, new stories, and profiles can be found below

Caitlin’s interview with Adrian Matejka, Editor of Poetry Magazine and former Poet Laureate of Indiana, appears in Issue 16.3 of Literary Matters. They discuss the musical influences present in his work, the pandemic’s impact on his most recent poetry collection, his experience at the editorial helm of Poetry Magazine, the dangers of writing from a universal place, and more. To check out the interview,  you can click here

Caitlin’s poem “Not It,” which originally appeared in 32 Poems, has been featured in The Guardian Poetry Column, along with an introduction and close reading by poet, critic, and editor Carol Rumens. In the column, Rumens writers: 

“Not It” is past-paced and fear-provoking… a compressed “coming of age” where time incessantly makes out-of-time demands… Death hovers in the dark; the word “Not” becomes a tocsin and a toxin. When “the wind / makes ghost-chimes of the Not,” that brief allusion to the supernatural is a reminder of the ballad form Doyle has adapted for her story. The traditional fatalism of the ballad is imported with marvelous effect… Doyle blurs past, present and future… she reveals the umbilical connection of childhood to adulthood…”

  • To read Carol Rumens’s full analysis of “Not It” in The Guardian, you can click here

Caitlin’s interview with Carl Phillips, who received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his collection Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020, appears in Issue 15.3 of Literary Matters. Their discussion traverses a range of topics, including the role of individual sensibility in the artistic process, the similarity between overly polite first-book manuscripts and too-good-to-be-true user profiles on dating sites, and the danger inherent in language’s ability to make “almost anything” sound true. To read the interview, you can click here

Caitlin’s poem “Wish” has been featured as “Poem of the Day” in The NY Sun, along with an introduction and close-reading by the column’s poetry editors. They write:

“The contemporary poet Caitlin Doyle belongs to a younger generation of poets whose work evinces, without self-consciousness or strained effort, a deep sense of traditional poetic form. Ms. Doyle, a native of Long Island, New York, stands out in an impressive field as a poet for whom the structures of rhyme and meter are so embedded in the ear and imagination that her formal play feels as reflexive as laughter.”

The editors continue:

“Wish” by Caitlin Doyle… “alternates unrhymed mostly-trimeter couplets with single parenthetical, tetrameter lines which, though they change, function as a rhymed refrain or antiphon. The poem’s call and response motion echoes both the ticking of a clock and the movement of a mind arguing with itself. At the mind’s forefront, a conscious voice rehashes and rationalizes the dissolution of a love affair. The second interior voice, meanwhile, resonant as a heartbeat, knows better and tells a bitter truth.”

  • To read the full feature on Caitlin’s work in The NY Sun, you can click here. Subscribers to The NY Suncan also access the feature by clicking here. 

Caitlin’s poem “The Ghost Hunter” has been published as a “Poem of the Week” feature in The Irish Times. To read the poem, you can click here.

Poet, critic, and essayist Forester McClatchey has written an essay about Caitlin’s poem “Not It” for the 32 Poems Marginalia Series. In his piece, which combines lyrical nonfiction and traditional literary analysis, he writes: 

“Caitlin Doyle’s poem “Not It”… dances around the dread of lost youth… The thirty-two line poem consists of one long sinuous sentence. There is nowhere to stop and breathe, and that’s part of the point… What is pursuing the speaker? Death? Time? No abstraction seems appropriate, because whatever it is, whatever dreadful thing pursues the speaker through the poem’s fugitive syntax, it lives in the poem’s sound… The eeriness of Doyle’s poem, its atmospheric menace, comes precisely from its formal techniques. The world pulses through the squares of the net, caught but angry…”

  • To read Forester McClatchey’s full essay about “Not It” in the 32 Poems Marginalia Series, you can click here.

Caitlin was interviewed as a special guest for National Poetry Month on 91.7 WVXU, an NPR affiliated radio station located in Cincinnati. She read three of her poems, and conversed with the show’s host about her early influences, her views on the relationship between form and content in language, and her poem-making process. She also discussed some of the noteworthy developments happening at The Cincinnati Review during her time as an Assistant Editor. To listen to a podcast of the interview, you can click here

Caitlin’s poems “Not It” and “Flannery at Andalusia” have been published in 32 Poems Magazine. To read “Not It,” you can click here, and to read “Flannery at Andalusia,” you can click here

Those interested in Caitlin’s writing can now visit a YouTube Channel centered on her work. The channel features videos of poetry readings she has given and tutorials she has created, as well as audio files of interviews she has done with various venues. New content will be added on a regular basis. To check out the channel, you can click here

  • The channel features a video of the reading Caitlin gave as the winner of the Frost Farm Poetry Prize (which included a recitation of Frost’s “Birches”). To watch the reading, you can click here
  • The channel also features a video compilation of short clips from several different poetry readings given by Caitlin. To watch the compilation, you can click here

Caitlin has joined the writing faculty of the Genesis Education Language Arts Mentorship Program. To read more about the program, you can click here

Caitlin appeared as a featured reader at the 2022 Newburyport Literary Festival. To learn more about the festival and the participating writers, you can click here.

Caitlin’s panel proposal “Writing Grief, Death, and the Afterlife Across Cultures” was accepted for AWP 2022. She moderated a discussion with poets Su Cho, Megan Fernandes, Chad Abushanab, and Mary Leauna Christensen.

Caitlin returned to the Frost Farm Poetry Conference as a faculty member in August 2021, along with poets Alfred Nicol, Deborah Warren, Midge Goldberg, and Dan Brown. She taught a workshop of her own design titled “Rhythm and Reverberation: Playing with Sound in Poetry.” To read a full description of Caitlin’s workshop, along with additional information about the conference, you can click here.

Caitlin served on the Poetry Advisory Committee for the Illinois Arts Council Agency’s Artist Fellowship Program, and she acted as the judge for the 28th Annual San Antonio Writers’ Guild Poetry Contest. 

Caitlin’s essay “The World’s Weight: Artifice and Reality in Richard Wilbur’s Poetry,” which was selected as the winner of the Meringoff Nonfiction Prize through the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, has been published in Literary Matters 12.1. To read the essay, you can click here. 

  • To read an announcement on the ALSCW website about the Meringoff Prize winners, including Caitlin, you can click here
  • Caitlin’s winning essay has also been featured in the “Poetry News” section on the Poetry Foundation blog. To check out the feature, titled “Together at Last, Thanks to Caitlin Doyle: Richard Wilbur, Edgar Allan Poe, and Foucault,” you can click here

Caitlin served as a Guild Hall Artist-In-Residence. She spent the fellowship session in residence at Guild House, adjacent to Guild Hall, in East Hampton, NY, along with visual artist Luisa Caldwell and playwright Dipti Bramhandkar. The Artist-In-Residence Program at Guild Hall “was founded as a means to extend Guild Hall’s mission to foster the artistic spirit” by “bringing emerging artists to the region” and encouraging “the next generation to contribute to the creative environment” of the East End.

  • For additional details about the Guild Hall Artist in Residence Program, you can click here. 
  • An article titled “Poet Caitlin Doyle Comes Home” appeared in The East Hampton Press. The piece centers on Caitlin’s experience as a Guild Hall Artist-In-Residence. To read it, you can click here  
  • An article titled “Three Artists to Watch” appears in Dan’s Papers. The piece highlights the three Guild Hall Artists-In-Residence, Caitlin included. To read it, you can click here

Caitlin joined the faculty of the 2019 Frost Farm Poetry Conference, along with fellow instructors Rhina Espaillat, Bruce Bennett, Bill Coyle, Alfred Nicol, and Midge Goldberg. For more information about the Frost Farm Poetry Conference, you can click here. She taught a workshop of her own design titled “Break it to Make it: Varying Form in Meaningful Ways,” with the following course description: 

“We’ll spend our time together exploring how and why poets create expressive variations when working with formal tools such as rhyme and meter. Examples include the way a poet might vary the meter at a strategic moment or break an established structural element in order to mirror a poem’s content. We’ll also examine what happens when form and content pull against each other to create complex dissonances that increase a poem’s range of potential implications. The class is geared toward writers at all levels of experience. Our main goal is to have fun with language as we think about how poets generate productive tension and build multilayered poems through the making and breaking of patterns on the page.”

You can read a post about Caitlin’s P.E.O. Presidential Endowed Scholar Award on the Boston University Creative Writing website by clicking here

Caitlin’s work has been featured in American Life in Poetry. Her poem “Cradle Thief” appeared in the series along with an introduction by former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, who highlighted her “haunting, memorable poetry” and “strategic artistry.” To read “Cradle Thief,” along with Kooser’s full introduction, you can click here

Caitlin’s poem “Carnival” appears in the poetry column in The Guardian. The column’s editor Carol Rumens describes “Carnival” as a poem in which “funfair rides provide a giddying setting for an ambiguous – and perilous – erotic merry-go-round…” Further elaborating on the poem, Rumens writes:

“Carnival” demonstrates the effectiveness of a “combination of story and song,” with each element being used to complement and complicate the other. The poem’s external patterning depends on the carefully interlocked symmetry and repetition we associate with songs and their pleasurable memorability, but the narrative itself is oblique and teasing, with the potential for carnivalesque disruption…”

  • To read “Carnival” in The Guardian, along with the editor’s full commentary on it, you can click here
  • Caitlin’s publication in The Guardian has been noted by the Boston University Graduate Program in Creative Writing. To check out her appearance on the program’s website, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded the Frost Farm International Poetry Prize. Her poem “Wish” was selected by judge Deborah Warren, who calls the piece a “a masterpiece masquerading (with its incantatory beat and simple language) as a Mother Goose rhyme.” Caitlin received an honorarium and appeared as the featured reader at The Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH.

  • To learn more about Caitlin’s selection for Frost Farm International Poetry Prize, and to read judge Deborah Warren‘s full commentary on Caitlin’s winning poem, you can click here
  • To read an article in Bostonia about Caitlin’s selection for the prize, titled “Caitlin Doyle: Following in Robert Frost’s Footsteps,” you can click here
  • To read an article in the University of Cincinnati News about Caitlin’s selection for the prize, titled “UC Ellison Fellow Wins Frost Farm Poetry Prize,” you can click here

Caitlin was commissioned by Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne to write lyrics for Silent Voices, a program featuring the nationally acclaimed Brooklyn Youth Chorus. The concert, titled Silent Voices: If You Listen, took place at the National Sawdust Theatre in Brooklyn, NY. Other lyricists for If You Listen included Jane Hirshfield, Brenda Shaughnessy, Safiya Sinclair, and Toshi Reagon. 

  • For information about the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, you can click here
  • To learn more about composer Anna Clyne, you can check out a profile of her in The New York Times by clicking here
  • To read an overview of Body Compass, the choral work on which Caitlin and Anna collaborated, you can click here

Caitlin has been awarded a variety of teaching honors, including the University of Cincinnati Excellence in Teaching Award. Caitlin was chosen for this distinction from a pool of doctoral instructor nominees among every college at the university. She has also been granted the College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Cincinnati, given to “one outstanding doctoral student teaching assistant each year for achievements in the classroom.” In addition, Caitlin received a William C. Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching.

  • To read an article in the University of Cincinnati News about Caitlin’s selection for the Excellence in Teaching Award, you can click here
  • To read the Commendation Letter Caitlin received as the recipient of the William C. Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching, you can click here
  • To learn more about the William C. Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching, you can click here

Caitlin’s essay “Formal Innovation as a Register for Racial Complexity in Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks” has been published in Volume XLVI of MidAmerica, the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. To read more about the journal and the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, you can click here

Caitlin moderated a panel at the 2019 AWP Conference titled “Diaspora and Endurance: Immigrant Legacies in American Poetry.” Panelists included poets Safiya Sinclair, Damilola Michael Alderbigbe, and Jenna Le, and the panel description was as follows:

  • Many poets with diasporic roots, whether first-generation Americans or citizens born at a multi-generational remove from their ancestral origins, have shaped our country’s literature. Panelists will read briefly, hold a craft-based conversation about their exploration of diasporic themes, and engage in a critical discussion focused on major diasporic voices throughout the history of American poetry. 

Caitlin’s poem “The Dress Code,” which originally appeared in The Yale Review, has received a Pushcart Special Mention in the 2019 edition of the Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses. The Pushcart Prize is an American literary award that honors the best poetry, short fiction, and essays published in the small presses over the previous year. To read about Caitlin’s selection for a 2019 Pushcart Prize Special Mention, you can visit the Boston University Creative Writing website by clicking here

Caitlin served as the Visiting Poet at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, CT, where she worked with students in English classes, led poetry workshops, and gave a reading for the school community. Past Visiting Poets at Miss Porter’s (also known as “Haggis Haggis Poets,” a title derived from the school’s literary magazine Haggis Baggis) have included Galway Kinnell, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Richard Blanco, and Eileen Myles. To learn more about Miss Porter’s School, you can click here.

Caitlin has been selected as the recipient of both the Exemplary Scholarship Award and the Excellence Award for Exemplary Service in the Arts & Humanities category at the University of Cincinnati.

  • The Exemplary Scholarship Award is “bestowed upon those students that exhibit in their fields of study the highest degree of scholarship“
  • The Excellence Award for Exemplary Service is granted based on the “outstanding contributions that the graduate student has made to improve graduate student quality of life and education within his/her department and within the university“
  • To read more about the University of Cincinnati Graduate Student Excellence Awards, you can click here

Caitlin has been highlighted in The Los Angeles Review of Books by critic A.M. Juster as “serious competition” for the role of “heir apparent” to the generation of poets with “formalist” leanings who came of age during the late 20th-and early 21st-century.” Juster’s mention of Caitlin appears in a review of Petty Theft by poet Nicholas Friedman. To read the full piece, you can click here

Caitlin participated in a panel titled “Voices of the Irish American Diaspora in Poetry, Narrative, and Song,” along with scholar Antoinette Larkin and poet Emily Rose Cole, at the MELUS Conference (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference). To learn more about the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, you can click here

Following her graduation with a PhD from the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati, Caitlin’s tenure as an editor at The Cincinnati Review has come to end. She served first as an Editorial Assistant, then as an Assistant Editor, and most recently as an Associate Editor.

  • The Managing Editor of The Cincinnati Review, Lisa Ampleman, has written an “Editor’s Dispatch” in which she briefly highlights some of the contributions that the two graduating Associate Editors, Caitlin and Molly Reid, have made to the journal. To read Lisa Ampleman’s post on the CR website, “Saying Goodbye to Our Associate Editors,” you can click here

A writing exercise of Caitlin’s design titled “Volta and Revolt: Exploring Moments of Change in Poetry” has been accepted for Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom. The anthology is forthcoming through RAIDER Publishing, a digital and open access initiative of Texas Tech University Libraries. 

Caitlin received the Joseph Wydeven Scholarship to present her paper “Formal Innovation as a Register for Racial Complexity in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks” at the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Conference in East Lansing, MI. Her paper was part of a panel titled “Centralizing Non-White Voices in Midwest Studies: Black Midwestern Poetics.” To learn about the SSML Conference, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded a Taft Research Fellowship through the University of Cincinnati in support of her project “Access to Her Proper Stone: Formal Mastery and Marginalized Identity in the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks.” With the fellowship’s aid, she conducted research into the life and work of Gwendolyn Brooks with the goal of producing a series of essays that explore Brooks’s relationship to poetic form. To learn more about the Taft Research Fellowship Program, you can click here

Caitlin has been featured in the Poetry Sunday Column, a literary series run by poet, editor, and critic Rebecca Foust. Foust writes that “Caitlin Doyle’s poems harness tradition to allow expression of a voice that is fresh, urgent, and resonant.” Past writers who have appeared in the column include Natasha Tretheway, Marie Howe, and A.E. Stallings. To check out Foust’s discussion of the relationship between form and content in Caitlin’s work, you can click here

Two of Caitlin’s poems, “The Dress Code” and “Wish,“ have been published in The Yale Review. Other contributors to the issue include Joyce Carol Oates, Rachel Hadas, Lisa Russ Spaar, and David Bottoms.

Caitlin’s poem “Wish,” which appeared originally in The Yale Review, has been featured on Poetry Daily.

Caitlin presented her paper “Fallible Facts: Language and Power in Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony and Alice Oswald’s Memorial” on a panel titled “What Poetry Documents” at the ALSCW Conference in Dallas, Texas. The panel, which was moderated by poet Erika Meitner, centered on a discussion of documentary poetics. To learn more about the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, you can click here

Caitlin’s review of “The Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay” (published by Yale University Press) appeared in Literary Matters.

  • To read Caitlin’s review in Literary Matters, you can click here.
  • Caitlin’s review was also featured in the “Poetry News” section of the Poetry Foundation blog. To check out the feature, titled “A New Selected Outlines Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Importance for Contemporary Readers,” you can click here

Caitlin has been featured in the PBS NewsHour Online Poetry Series. The feature contains an interview, a sample of Caitlin’s poetry, and a recording of her reading her poem “A Brief History of the Bikini.”

  • To read the PBS NewsHour feature about Caitlin, you can click here
  • To see Caitlin’s PBS NewsHour feature highlighted on the Poetry Foundation Harriet Blog, you can click here
  • Caitlin’s PBS NewsHour feature has also been noted, along with her other recent fellowships and publications, by the Boston University Graduate Program in Creative Writing. To read about Caitlin on the program’s site, you can click here

A poem of Caitlin’s was recently featured by the PoetryNow series through the Poetry Foundation. As described on the Poetry Foundation website,“PoetryNow is a weekly four-minute radio series featuring some of today’s most accomplished and innovative poets who offer an acoustically rich and reflective look into a single poem.” The poem also appeared as a Poetry Foundation “Poem of the Day.”

  • To check out Caitlin’s poem in the PoetryNow series and listen to a recording of Caitlin reading it on the Poetry Foundation’s “Poem of the Day” page, you can click here

Peter McDermott of The Irish Echo has profiled Caitlin as a “rising star American poetry.” The piece discusses her path as a poet, her family history, her aims as a teacher of writing and literature, and her connection to Irish culture and literary influences. To read the profile, you can click here

Caitlin’s review of Amit Majmudar’s “Dothead” appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books. To read the review, you can click here. The review has also been featured in the “Poetry News” section on the Poetry Foundation blog. To check out the feature, titled “Praise: Los Angeles Review of Books on Amit Majmudar’s Dothead,” you can click here

Caitlin was awarded a fellowship at Yaddo, where she spent time working on her debut poetry manuscript. To read more about Yaddo’s history of support for the arts in America, you can click here

Caitlin has been awarded a GSGA Research Fellowship (Graduate School Governance Association) at the University of Cincinnati. The fellowship will support travel and research related to the development of her debut poetry collection. To read more about the GSGA Fellowship program, you can click here

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, and Jean Valentine.

  • To purchase a copy of The Golden Shovel Anthology, you can click here.
  • To find detailed information about the anthology on the University of Arkansas Press website, you can click here

Caitlin’s poetry has been included in Bared, an anthology published through Les Femmes Folles Books. The book, edited by Laura Madeline Wiseman, features work by a variety of contemporary poets, including Alicia Ostriker, Denise Duhamel, Maura Seaton, and Ellen Bass. To read more about the anthology and purchase a copy, you can visit its Amazon page by clicking here

Caitlin participated as a translator in “Breaking Barriers: El Arte de la Traducción Poética” (“The Art of Poetic Translation”) at the 36th annual Conference in Romance Languages and Literatures. She worked with Bolivian poet Giovanni Bello on a project that involved the two of them translating each other’s work. They discussed their collaborative process on a panel featuring several translators.

Caitlin’s work appears in The Doll Collection, an anthology of poetry published in Spring 2016 by Terrapin Books. Contributors include David Trinidad, Denise Duhamel, Paula Bohince, Jeffrey Harrison, and Cecilia Woloch. To visit the book’s Amazon.com page, you can click here

Caitlin was the Visiting Writer at Western Reserve Academy, a college preparatory boarding and day school in Hudson, OH. She taught Creative Writing classes, led an evening seminar, and gave a campus-wide reading.

Caitlin gave a presentation on Yeats, prosody, and creative composition at the Composing Variations Conference, hosted by the University of Cincinnati English Composition Program and the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Caitlin started her doctoral studies as an Elliston Fellow in Poetry in the University of Cincinnati PhD Program in English Literature and Creative Writing. You can click here to read more about the Elliston Poetry Fund

Caitlin’s review of Maxine Kumin’s poetry collection “And Short The Season” has been published in Blackbird. To read the review, you can click here

Caitlin’s essay “Kerouac’s Junk Mail, Merrill’s Ouija Board: Living With Literary Ghosts” was published in The Angle and reprinted in the Fantastic Floridas Series through Burrow Press. From the editor’s introduction at The Angle:

“… Doyle has traveled all over the United States for Writer-In-Residence positions and teaching posts, including coveted fellowships at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT, and the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, FL. We recently asked her to reflect, for readers of The Angle, on her experience living and writing in both writers’ houses, and on her journey as an emerging writer. Her essay beautifully explores questions of literary influence and the discoveries that come when one lives with the ghosts, whether actual or imagined, of other writers …”

  • To read Caitlin’s essay “Kerouac’s Junk Mail, Merrill’s Ouija Board: Living With Literary Ghosts” on the Burrow Press website, you can click here

Caitlin has been interviewed for the Drunken Odyssey Series about her work as a poet. Hosted by John King, the interview spans several topics, including popular culture, the role of sound in language, song lyrics, and more. Past guests on the series include Tony Hoagland, David Sedaris, and Cheryl Strayed. To listen to the interview, you can click here

Caitlin has been interviewed on Functionally Literate Radio (WPRK 91.5) about her work as a poet. Hosted by Jared Silvia and Ryan Rivas of Burrow Press, the discussion traverses a range of subjects, including the role of form in poetry, the relationship between poetry and film, humor and play in language, and notions of literary community. To listen to the interview, you can click here

An essay titled “A Ringing Echo: The Poetry of Caitlin Doyle” has been published in The Critical Flame. The essay, written by Maya Sloan, provides a detailed close reading of Caitlin’s work and highlights her as a poet whose poems are “richly layered, full of razor-edged skill, and packed with invention and technical versatility.” She writes:

“…Whether using her inventive artistry to forge formal poetry or free verse, which she does with equal skill, Doyle creates poems that buzz with complicated nuances beneath their pared-down and haunting surfaces… Doyle’s poems, almost always infused with a vivid clarity on the surface, bristle underneath with shadows, ironies, and paradoxes… the kind of artistry that lets her record the world with accuracy while also creating it anew…”

  • To read the full essay “A Ringing Echo: The Poetry of Caitlin Doyle”in The Critical Flame, you can click here

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

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 click here to purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.

Caitlin gave a reading along with poet Annemarie Ni Churreain for the Literature Out Loud Series at the Maitland Art Museum. They presented their work as part of the museum’s “CulturePop” event, which included the opening of two new art exhibitions by Cicero Greathouse and Leigh Tarantino. To see an announcement about the reading in Scribbles: The Heartbeat of the Florida Writing Lifestyle, you can click here

  • “Come out to hear a pair of young poets who’ve won the hearts of literary readers and their way into the Writer-in-Residence program at the Jack Kerouac House! Caitlin Doyle and Annemarie Ni Churreain will alternate poetry readings… enjoy these lauded young poets along with a live band, a cash bar, and an art exhibit in the garden” (from Mad About Words)

Caitlin has been featured in The East Hampton Star newspaper in an article entitled “Poetic Sparks In The ‘Hooley’ Tradition.” The piece highlights her fellowships, details her journey as a writer, and describes some of the early experiences that made her fall in love with poetry. To read “Poetic Sparks In The ‘Hooley” Tradition,” you can click here

John O’Rourke of Boston University Today published an article about the Boston University Faculty Reading. Each year, a graduate of the Boston University Master of Fine Arts Program in poetry and/or fiction receives an invitation to read with the Creative Writing faculty. Caitlin was invited to participate as the Featured Poetry Alumna Reader. She shared the stage with Robert Pinsky, Dan Chiasson, Leslie Epstein, Ha Jin, Sigrid Nunez, and Nell Stevens. In his article, O’Rourke writes:

“Where can you find a three-time US poet laureate, the poetry critic for The New Yorker, and three acclaimed novelists—along with two literary newcomers, each in possession of a highly original voice—all on the same stage?”

  • To learn more about the annual Boston University Faculty Reading, which O’Rourke notes as “one of Boston’s most distinguished literary events,” and to see Caitlin interviewed and profiled along with the other readers, you can read “BU’s Literary Lions Read Tonight” in Boston University Today by clicking here

Caitlin was selected as the Writer-In-Residence at Interlochen Arts Academy, where she recently taught Creative Writing. Interlochen Arts Academy, located in northern Michigan, is a college-preparatory boarding school with an emphasis on the fine arts. To read an announcement about Caitlin on the Interlochen Creative Writing Program site, you can click here, and to learn more about Interlochen Arts Academy, you can click here

Caitlin’s review of Will Schutt’s poetry collection “Westerly” appeared in Blackbird. To read the review, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded a fall residency fellowship as a Writer-In-Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. To learn more about the James Merrill House Writer-In-Residence Program, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship in Poetry through the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, VT. To learn more about the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference,you can click here

Caitlin was featured in The Irish Examiner in reference to her essay “Hungry Hills: Coming of Age as an Irish American Poet,” which originally appeared in Cork Literary Review, Vol. 15. Colette Sheridan from The Irish Examiner writes:

“Among established poets from Ireland’s literati, such as Séamus Heaney, Gerard Smyth, Bernard O’Donoghue, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, William Wall and Matthew Sweeney, one of the new voices is that of Irish-American Caitlin Doyle, an emerging poet who has published widely in America.”

  • To read more about Caitlin’s essay “Hungry Hills: Coming of Age as an Irish American Poet,” as discussed in The Irish Examiner, you can click here

Michelle Lewis has written an essay entitled “Doyle & The Ersatz Life,” in which she examines several of Caitlin’s individual poems and her work as a whole. Of Caitlin’s poem “The Bells,” Lewis says:

“In the sonorous (and exquisitely rendered) “The Bells,” ringing bells are obscured by their own echo until their signifying breaks into chaos and no one can hear the chime behind each chime. The poet suggests the echo could be there to “stop the urge to steep us in too faithful a refrain” – a rabbit hole that gets straight to the seductive powers and dangers of authentic (and elusive) emotion.”

  • To read the full essay “Doyle & The Ersatz Life,” you can click here
  • To read about “Doyle & The Ersatz Life” on the Boston University Creative Writing site, and learn about some of Caitlin’s recent literary activities, you can click here

Caitlin has been featured as the Gwarlingo Sunday Poet. Editor Michelle Aldredge asserts: “Whether she is constructing in free verse or in more traditional forms, Doyle’s surprising creations use sound as a doorway to sense.” To read Michelle Aldredge’s full commentary on Caitlin’s work for the Gwarlingo Sunday Poet Series, you can click here

Caitlin was selected as a finalist in the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship competition through the Poetry Foundation. To learn more about the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship program, you can click here

Caitlin has been featured in Stay Thirsty as one of four “Emerging Poets to Watch.” Poet and critic Abriana Jette writes:

“Doyle’s devotion to musicality is the edifice of her poetry… she uses rhyme as a device to puncture the expectations of the physical world… producing work both cosmopolitan and mythic… Doyle’s poems, whether playful or serious in tone, always possess layers of complexity that reward multiple readings.”

  • To read Abriana Jette’s full article “Emerging Poets to Watch” in Stay Thirsty, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded the WC&C Scholarship in Poetry through AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs). Every year, the WC&C Scholarship Program awards one scholarship to a poet and one to a fiction writer. To learn more about the WC&C Scholarship Program, you can click here

Caitlin taught Creative Writing as the Emerging Writer-In-Residence at Penn State Altoona. To learn more about the Emerging Writer-In-Residence program at Penn State Altoona, including a list of writers who have held the position, you can click here

Caitlin’s review of Heidy Steidlmayer’s debut collection, “Fowling Piece,” appeared as a Prose Feature at 32 Poems Magazine. To read the review, you can click here

Writer Samuel Zelitch has written a commentary on the sonic aspects of Caitlin’s poem “In The Bush,” which appears in Issue 40 of Birmingham Poetry Review. You can read “In The Bush” along with Zelich’s commentary on it (which includes a recording of him reading the poem) by clicking here. Zelich has also performed Caitlin’s “The Foley Artist’s Apprentice” on a recording, to which you can listen by clicking here

Caitlin’s poem “The Foley Artist’s Apprentice” appeared in The Atlantic. To read the poem, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded an Amy Award through Poets & Writers, a prize given annually to three poets under thirty. She read along with the other two awardees, Courtney Kampa and Jenny Xie, at the New York Society Library. To learn more about the Amy Award Series, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded the ALSCW (Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers) Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. The fellowship provides a residency to a writer of poetry, prose or literary translations. To read more about the Vermont Studio Center, you can click here

Caitlin held the Roland Scholarship an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL. To read more about the Atlantic Center for the Arts, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Poetry through The Sewanee Writers’ Conference in Sewanee, TN. To read more about the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, you can click here

One of Caitlin’s poems was selected to appear in American Creative Writers On Class, an anthology featuring poetry and non-fiction on the subject of class in America. Contributors include Matthea Harvey, Dorianne Laux, and Oliver de la Paz. To check out the book’s Amazon page, you can click here. To read more about the book on the publisher’s blog, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded an Individual Artist Grant in Poetry through the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for her poetry manuscript-in-progress. To read more about the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded a Literary Grant through the Elizabeth George Foundation. To read more about the Elizabeth George Foundation, you can click here

Caitlin was awarded the winter term Jack Kerouac Writer-In-Residence position at the Kerouac House in Orlando, FL. To see Caitlin featured on the Kerouac Project website, you can click here

Caitlin’s work has been featured in an anthology entitled “Writers Among Us,” a collection of poetry, fiction, and essays by writers who have held the Writer-In-Residence Position at St. Albans School in Washington, DC. Other writers appearing in the anthology include Curtis Sittenfeld, Matthew Klam, and Will Blythe. To read more about the “Writer’s Among Us” anthology, you can click here

Caitlin’s poem “Thirteen” received a prominent mention in Erik Richard’s review of Best New Poets. Richard described the poem as “such a remarkable combination of ideas and word-play… that it is like a socks-on-carpet spark to the brain.” To read the rest of the review in Verse Wisconsin, you can click here

As the Writer-In-Residence at St. Albans School in Washington, DC, Caitlin was invited to give a reading and an interview for the Ellison Library Podcast Series. To listen to the podcast, you can click here

Caitlin was chosen as one of two poets, along with Henk Rossouw, to represent New York State in the Distant Voices Poetry Festival, a global reading series orchestrated through Stanza: Scotland’s Poetry Festival. To learn more about the festival, you can click here.

To read Caitlin’s profile in the Poets & Writers online Directory of Writers, you can click here

Caitlin was one of the poets featured in the Best New Poets reading series in New York City. To see a post on the Best New Poets site about the first reading in the series, which took place at Housing Works Bookstore, you can click here

During her time as the Jack Kerouac House Writer-in-Residence in Orlando, FL, Caitlin Doyle was interviewed on the “Writer’s Spotlight” segment of the YSL radio show on Big810 WEUS AM. To listen to an audio recording of the interview, you can click here

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