JAN2025 Calendar

 JAN2025 Calendar

Coming out of the pandemic in January 2021, @wordtoaction hosted a Resolution Revolution to pledge to make some lessons permanent. (link to blog https://cathywittmeyer.com/we-resolve/)   Following up on that, here’s my new concrete poem in the shape of a...
Negotiating What We All Get Out Of This

Negotiating What We All Get Out Of This

I started my workshop with the Economics, Leadership & Governance masters class at Universidad de Navarra with a premise: every morning starts as a negotiation between your present self and your future self (the past is just a reference point).  I was in the...
My Worlds Hovered Closely in 2023

My Worlds Hovered Closely in 2023

I’d say my worlds collided but that would imply some destruction and there was only growth. In 2023, my professional and writing worlds gently brushed past each other so that they not only overlapped in subject matter, but also people started showing up in both worlds...
A Poem for My Sister, Listening in Heaven

A Poem for My Sister, Listening in Heaven

A week ago, I gathered with my family at my hometown church of St. Mary’s in East Eden, N.Y. for the funeral of my beautiful big sister, Jennifer (52). The 300+ people who couldn’t all fit inside the church were a testimony to what a generous and loving person she...
RUMORS SECRETS & LIES

RUMORS SECRETS & LIES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rumors, Secrets, & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion, & Choice Edited by Carol Lynne Knight and Kristine Snodgrass Available Oct. 26, 2022 ISBN – 978-1-934695-79-1 LOC# – 2022943708 Format: 10” X 10” perfect bound  • 130 pages • $30...