Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin is an American poet.

Life[]

She graduated from Marlboro College, University of Houston, University of Iowa, and University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D.^[1] She has taught at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York^[2] and Columbia University.^[3] She teaches in the English Department of Colby College.^[4]

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares,^[5] Fence, The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, Ninth Letter, and TriQuarterly.

Awards[]

• 2000 , for World’s Tallest Disaster by Robert Pinsky
• 2002 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University.
• 2007 NYFA Fellow
• 2007 Whiting Award
• 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship

Poems[]

• "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", Fishouse
• "Azalea", Fishouse
• "Monsterful", Ploughshares, Spring 2007
• "Robotripping", Ploughshares, Spring 2006
• "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", Ploughshares, Spring 2000
• "The Pet", Slate, January 14, 2003

Full-length poetry collections[]

• Chicanery: A Collection of Original Poems, University of Cincinnati 2003 (Unpublished dissertation)
• World’s Tallest Disaster, Sarabande Books 2001
• Fragment of the Head of a Queen, Sarabande Books 2007
• Oracle, WW Norton 2015

Editor[]

• with Michael Dumanis, Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century, Sarabande Books 2006

References[]

External links[]

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• Poetry Foundation page.

Links to works

• "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", Fishouse
• "Azalea", Fishouse
• "The Pet", Slate, Jan. 14, 2003
• Monsterful. Ploughshares. Spring 2007.
• Robotripping. Ploughshares. Spring 2006.
• I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed. Ploughshares. Spring 2000.
• World's Tallest Disaster. Sarabande Books. 2001. ISBN 978-1-889330-61-7.