11/25/2010

blamed the pine trees, perfectly inserted
into dull sand hills, brush brush
           brushing away
any face that tried to form.

BIO:

Catie Rosemurgy received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Alabama. She teaches courses in creative writing and poetry at the College of New Jersey, where she is faculty advisor for ink, the student writers' organization. Her poetry collection, My Favorite Apocalypse, was published by Graywolf Press in 2001. She received a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Female Writers, and most recently her work has appeared in the anthologies Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Young American Poets and Poetry 30, a collection of work by American poets in their thirties.
MORE POEMS:

03/22/2011
'Girl Lesson #4', Sandy Longhorn


09/13/2012
'Pious Scholars Rare', Brett Foster


11/25/2010
'The Third Girl Who Disappeared', Catie Rosemurgy