To understand the poet is not the point.
Publications
Work To Do
Has appeared in Noble Gas QRTLY
Norderney Nerves
Has appeared in The Esthetic Apostle
Peeling Bark Floats Silver and Papery
Has appeared in Cathexis Northwest Press
About Cathy
Cathy Wittmeyer is not the poet-mother-engineer-lawyer-
About Cathy
Cathy Wittmeyer is not the poet-mother-engineer-lawyer-
Cathy’s Blog
Poetry & Timing & Luck & Stars & Gratitude
A dear friend still wants me to tell her the time I was born so that she can do my reading. I hate to avoid the question, but I avoid all things hocus-pocus. This is weird for a life-long relatively devout Catholic to say, I know. Hocus-pocus is essential to our...
Starting with a Line from Patti Smith
(The Year of the Monkey, Bloomsbury Pub.) In the center of February — or was it March? I cannot tell from this vantage point, but it was the middle point of a month, a segment of time that can seem rather long depending on what you are waiting for: an exam result, a...
That’s Life
No, I'm not crying because I'm waiting for my own spinal tap results. I don't cling to life that much. But I know he does. Most people I know have a Velcro-like attraction to life as if we didn't know this is all temporary. Maybe we didn't at first, not until that...