Catherine Staples is the author of The Rattling Window (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2013), winner of the McGovern Prize, and a chapbook, Never a Note Forfeit (Seven Kitchens Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, the Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. She teaches at Villanova University.
Poetry
Spring 2023
Inflorescense
Visions of Clotho through windy stands of fescue and bluestem. Seedheads lean and sway as rivers of wind run through them, sunlight shingles each floret of seed. In the long […]
Summer 2016
The Arrow of the Angel Had Gone Too Deep; Oster, Oxter
The deep wound of not having a brother:
perpetual ache in the shoulder’s blade,