Catherine Fletcher

The new issue of Burning House Press explores shifting boundaries, dream worlds, and altered states--edited by Yanina Spizzirri and including a poem by yours truly. Online now at https://burninghousepress.com/2019/09/26/prayer-for-validation-by-catherine-fletcher .

On 9/24 at 6pm, Renée Olander, Noah Renn, Thom Yuill, Kindra McDonald, and I will exchange poetry and ideas with J.R. Léveillé, Gabriel Robichaud, and Virginia Pésémapéeo Bordeleau at Cure Coffeehouse in Downtown Norfolk . Part of the ODU Quebecois Poetry Festival.  Please join us!

This week at the ASLE Conference at UC Davis , Catherine discusses ways of representing animals in poetry and what the resulting writing might reveal about human relationships with fellow creatures as well as the environments—urban, suburban, rural—we share with them.

Registration is now open for Queens Council on the Arts' annual conference on creative aging. The conference is open to teaching artists, elder artists, and managers from senior centers and arts organizations. Please join us on May 15th at Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City!

Another batch of concoctions from Queens Writers' Lab is brewing.  Join us on Mon, May 13 at Terraza 7 Cafe at 7:30pm for the latest: https://www.facebook.com/events/1077127495806789 .

Queensbound rides again this Sunday, Feb. 3rd  at QED in Astoria! Please join KC Trommer, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Malcolm Chang, Reese Francis, Jared Harel, Safia Jama, Meera Nair, and me as we read poetry celebrating Queens along with music from Tyler Burba & Adam DeGraff, hosts of the reading series Kith & Kin.

The latest issue of Shabdaguchha is out.  Thank you to editor Hassanal Abdullah for including my poems "Genesis" and "Whiteout!"

I'm delighted to have my poem "House Cleaning" in the latest issue of The Hopkins Review along with the wonderful poetry of Anton Yakovlev and David M.Katz 's reflection on the late Dick Allen. Many thanks to editor David Yezzi!

Please join Peter Schulman, Madeline Monette, Joanna Eleftheriou, Catherine Cormier-Larose, Ewan Turner, Sacha Zabotin, and me tonight at 6:30 the Brooklyn Public Library downtown (109 Remsen) for a New York-Montreal poetry exchange.