Catherine Bowman (born in El Paso, Texas) is an American poet.

Catherine Bowman
Born
OccupationPoet
EmployerIndiana University
Awards

Her most recent poetry collection is Can I Finish, Please? (Four Way Books, 2016), and her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Best American Poetry, TriQuarterly, River Styx, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Times, Crazyhorse, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, and in six editions of The Best American Poetry. Her honors include fellowships from Yaddo and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Bowman is a full professor in the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University, and also teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.[1][2][3]

Honors

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Published works

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Full-length poetry collections

  • Can I Finish, Please? (Four Way Books, 2016)
  • The Plath Cabinet (Four Way Books, 2009)
  • Notarikon. Four Way Books. 2006. ISBN 978-1-884800-70-2.
  • Rock Farm. Gibbs Smith. 1996.
  • 1-800-HOT-RIBS. Gibbs Smith. 1993. ISBN 978-0-87905-585-1.

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Further reading

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  • Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists featuring Catherine Bowman. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson (Trinity University Press, 2008).

References

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Ploughshares

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