Catherine Bowman Explained

Catherine Bowman
Birth Place:	El Paso, Texas
Occupation:	Poet
Employer:	Indiana University

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

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

• 1994 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
• Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize
• Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas
• 1990 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry^[4]

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

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

Anthologies edited

• Book: Word of mouth: poems featured on NPR's All things considered. 2003. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. Catherine Bowman. 978-0-375-71315-6. registration.

Further reading

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

External links

Ploughshares

• Poems: https://web.archive.org/web/20070218094748/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8407 . Names of Tulips, Good Friday. 18 February 2007. Ploughshares. Spring 2006.
• Poem: https://web.archive.org/web/20040901211102/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7915 . Boutique Quixotica. 1 September 2004. Ploughshares. Spring 2004.
• Poem: https://web.archive.org/web/20051101080641/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7969 . Forest Neurotica. 1 November 2005. Ploughshares. Spring 2004.

Notes and References

1. http://www.upne.com/1-884800-70-X.html UPNE > Author Page > Catherine Bowman > Notarikon
2. http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=31091 The New School University > Events > Poetry Forum: Catherine Bowman
3. http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=2923&view=full_sptlght Author Page: Random House > Author Spotlight > Catherine Bowman
4. Web site: Directory of Artists' Fellows & Finalists . . 30 August 2022.