Cate Marvin has published four books of poems, most recently Event Horizon (Copper Canyon Press, 2022). She teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and lives in Southern Maine.
2025 Patrica Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Fall 2025
Introduction
All of the entrants in the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers contest should know that it was very hard for me to choose these runners-up and a winner. […]
Luminous Gender Vessel
Fall 2023
Pleasure
I enjoy not sleeping next to you. I love not lying beside you in bed. Particularly delicious is not waking up beside you. Hours wander by like bears rummaging trash, […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
Starfuckers
Beer Lotto Wine Cigs is a sign before a door- way I walk through to buy a bottle of water, is a hole I fall some stairs down into in […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
Event Horizon
Remember when you stabbed me on my birthday? A glass of wine itched, scratched itself off the table. Whatever phones were then, they were dead. Whatever phones were then, we […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
The Eyes of the Neighborhood
I The man whose girlfriend I saw moving small with the heavy laundry basket from the laundromat to pile herself and her little dog into his junky car, the man […]
Poetry
Summer 2004
Azaleas
It was a town so quiet, the mailman was empty-handed. Why then nostrils of bloom, breathing so pinkly? Even the town crier had taken a vow of silence. Why at […]
Poetry
Summer 2004
Scenes from the Battle of Us
You are like a war novel, entirely lacking female characters, except for an occasional letter that makes one of the men cry. I am like a table that eats its […]
Luminous Gender Vessel
Fall 2023
Spiraled Ham
It sat fat face down in its glazed heft as I slid the weighted tray into the oven, later pulling it out in its juiced glory to give to guests […]
Jan/Feb 2022
Friend of the Flies
My weirdling child indentures herself to collecting sticks in something called a garden that is barely a garden yet full of flies. Watching her from up high, my head stuck […]