Catherine Staples

Catherine Staples is the author of The Rattling Window and Never a Note Forfeit. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Yale Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, the Gettysburg Review, and others. She teaches in the Honors and English programs at Villanova University.

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Poetry | Shipwrecked, Dreaming | In the Windy Room

Here in the windy room / a minister is speaking about light— / choosing light, no talk of Christ.

By Catherine Staples

March 11, 2019

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Poem | Anthropocene

“Like a promise made, forgotten, / remembered or a portent out of season— / these starlings rise like a single thought”

By Catherine Staples

February 25, 2019

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Survivor, Wreck of the Jason

He washed up on shingle, / frozen, bleary with sleet.

By Catherine Staples

October 29, 2018

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