Catherine Pierce

Catherine Pierce is the author of three books of poems: The Tornado Is the World, The Girls of Peculiar, and Famous Last Words, all from Saturnalia Books. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.

You’re gilled but till the soil like any earth-snug vertebrate. You never read the manual. Your […]

Burrowing Crayfish Ode by Catherine Pierce

March 14, 2020 in Poetry tagged Catherine Pierce by Wendy Chen

“How do you spell ‘clouds folded over them’?” asked my son. I was sweeping up the […]

All Asteroids Are Called Minor Planets Though Some Are Only ...

June 14, 2018 in Prose tagged Catherine Pierce by Kristina Marie Darling