Catherine Bowman
{{short description|American poet|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Catherine Bowman (born in El Paso, Texas) is an American poet.
Her most recent poetry collection is Can I Finish, Please? (Four Way Books, 2016), and her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Best American Poetry, TriQuarterly, River Styx, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Times, Crazyhorse, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, and in six editions of The Best American Poetry. Her honors include fellowships from Yaddo and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Bowman is a full professor in the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University, and also teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060219201349/http://www.upne.com/1-884800-70-X.html UPNE > Author Page > Catherine Bowman > Notarikon]}}[http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=31091 The New School University > Events > Poetry Forum: Catherine Bowman][http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=2923&view=full_sptlght Author Page: Random House > Author Spotlight > Catherine Bowman]
Honors
- 1994 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize
- Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas
- 1990 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry{{cite web |title=Directory of Artists' Fellows & Finalists |url=https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/FellowsDirectory-1.pdf |publisher=New York Foundation for the Arts |access-date=30 August 2022}}
Published works
Full-length poetry collections
- Can I Finish, Please? (Four Way Books, 2016)
- The Plath Cabinet (Four Way Books, 2009)
- {{cite book| title=Notarikon| publisher=Four Way Books| year=2006| isbn=978-1-884800-70-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=Rock Farm| publisher=Gibbs Smith| year=1996 }}
- {{cite book| title=1-800-HOT-RIBS| publisher=Gibbs Smith| year=1993| isbn=978-0-87905-585-1 }}
Anthologies edited
- {{cite book| title=Word of mouth: poems featured on NPR's All things considered| date=2003| publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing| editor=Catherine Bowman| isbn=978-0-375-71315-6| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/wordofmouthpoems00bowm}}
Further reading
- Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists featuring Catherine Bowman. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson (Trinity University Press, 2008).
References
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