About Catherine Pierce and The Southern Review

Today's poem is "If/When"

from The Southern Review

Catherine Pierce's new book, Danger Days, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in October. She is the author of three other books of poems, most recently The Tornado Is the World (Saturnalia 2016). Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, the New York Times, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series and elsewhere. A 2019 NEA Fellow and Pushcart Prize winner, she co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.
Other poems by Catherine Pierce in Verse Daily:
February 4, 2020: "Entreaty" "Dear spring, commit. Burst..."
February 18, 2019: "Poem for the Woods" "Not as I would dream them now, not with growls..."
May 22, 2017: "The Town Dreams the Tornado Apologizes" "And then we woke up. And our uncles..."
October 7, 2014: "The Tornado Wants a Companion" "No one wants the whirling all the time...."
September 8, 2008: "The Guidance Counselor to the Girl" "The test suggests an aptitude for solitary work..."
June 24, 2008: "'This is Funny'" "Not the whiskey, though that, too..."
July 10, 2004: "Nor Hell a Fury" "I am the step that creaks...."
Books by Catherine Pierce:

Other poems on the web by Catherine Pierce:
"All the Dead Animals"
"In Praise of the Horror Movie"
"I Kept Getting Books about Birds"
"Anthropocene Pastoral"
Three poems
"Poem from the Hidden Passage"
"Chadwick Lake, 8:15 a.m."
"Disaster Work"
"The Tornado Visits the Town"
"Narrative Theory"
Two poems
Two poems
"Last Meal"
"Poem: Precautions"
"Dear Day,"
"Love Poem To America"
Four poems
"This Is Not an Elegy"
"Poem from the Girls We Were"
"Instinct"
Two poems
"Reading Faulkner at 17, You Foresee Your Reckoning"
"I Go Back to Ohio"
Catherine Pierce's Website.
Catherine Pierce on Twitter.
About The Southern Review:

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May 7, 2020: "Invitation to Tender" by Erika Meitner
May 6, 2020: "So Much for America" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
April 23, 2020: "Scuttle" by John A. Nieves
November 11, 2019: "The Horn of Plenty Sits Empty" by Meghan McClure
November 10, 2019: "Only Autumn" by Barbara Swift Brauer
July 6, 2019: "Kick in the Jaw" Dan Albergotti
July 5, 2019: "Refraction at Twilight" Alice Friman
July 4, 2019: "The Father of Our Country" Kim Roberts
February 16, 2019: "Here, now, gone" Bob Hicok
August 24, 2017: Two poems by Stephen Gibson
August 22, 2017: "Virgule" by Michael McFee
August 21, 2017: "Where Another Lets Go" by Paul Hunter
October 28, 2015: "Driving to Work" by A. M. Brandt
July 25, 2014: "To the Stars through Difficulties" by Christina Olson
May 12, 2014: "The life-and-death world of carpentry" by Bob Hicok
May 6, 2014: "Some Math, Some Words" by Bob Hicok
May 4, 2014: "Affirmative Action Babies" by Erika Meitner
November 25, 2013: "Confession" by Carrie Shipers
November 24, 2013: "Penillion of Riding Past the Radio Astronomy Observatory Amid Hedges and Fields" by John Kinsella
November 23, 2013: "Under the Sun" by Chard deNiord
November 22, 2013: "Alligators" by Kevin Prufer
January 11, 2013: "Mothering" by Michael McCarthy
January 9, 2013: "Zombie Preparedness Plan" by Mary Jo Firth Gillett
January 8, 2013: "feeder" by Beth Bachmann
November 9, 2012: "Straw Poll" by Michael McFee
November 8, 2012: "Somehow, We Are a We" by Kimberly Grey
September 24, 2012: "Daily" by John A. Nieves
September 21, 2012: "Why Our Mothers Panic" by Sarah Kain Gutowski
February 19, 2012: "Elegy for a Game" by Mary Ruefle
February 16, 2012: "Words, what is the word, matter" by Bob Hicok
January 26, 2012: "Thames Music" by William Wenthe
September 23, 2011: "Questions about the Wife" by Rebecca Hazelton
September 22, 2011: "Coxwain" by Nance Van Winckel
November 13, 2010: "The Former Pirate on His Way Back to Lisbon" by Weston Cutter
May 27, 2010: "Dead Telegram to a Dead Poet" by Bruce Cohen
March 2, 2010: "Teaching 'The Red Wheelbarrow' the Thirtieth Time" by Wendy Barker
January 9, 2010: "Elegy as Spot's Lift-the-Flap Book" by Victoria Chang
January 8, 2010: "An Algebra of Fifty" by Catherine Abbey Hodges
September 12, 2009: "I Was Thinking of Beauty" by Sydney Lea
September 11, 2009: "Cosmonauts" by Rhett Iseman Trull
June 5, 2009: "Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking" by Weston Cutter
June 3, 2009: "Rain on the Roof" by Beverley Bie Brahic
June 2, 2009: "Questions about Birds" by Billy Collins
February 20, 2009: "Holidays and Sundays" by David Bottoms
November 21, 2008: "Approaching Thunder" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
November 20, 2008: "Patterns" by Theodore Worozbyt
August 29, 2008: "A Convincing Story" by Beth Bretl
August 28, 2008: "Siren Song for Late September" by Alice Friman
August 27, 2008: "Scavengers" by Fleda Brown
August 26, 2008: "Settle" by Chanda Feldman
May 11, 2008: "Midden" by Brendan Galvin
February 3, 2008: "Hordes of Indigent Psychologist" by Scott Coffel
January 29, 2008: "Runaway Bride" by Allison Seay
November 10, 2007: "Columba livia" by Sandra Meek
November 9, 2007: "Poltergeist" by Jennifer Metsker
November 6, 2007: "A celebration of lasting achievment" by Bob Hicok
August 5, 2007: "Be the Dog" by J. Allyn Rosser
August 2, 2007: "Haruspicy" by Sarah Hannah
June 6, 2007: "Not Mattering to the Earth" by Colette Inez
June 5, 2007: "Something in My Eye" by Allison Smythe
February 9, 2007: "Mysterious Ways" by Alison Pelegrin
September 15, 2006: "God of The" by Garrett Doherty
September 14, 2006: "One Morning a Rose Blooms" by Richard Tillinghast
September 13, 2006: "Aubade" by Rhoda Janzen
June 22, 2006: "Trouble." by Melissa Stein
June 19, 2006: "Love of Sport" by Bob Hicok
January 19, 2006: "Key to Pronunciation: /sälm/" by Rita Mae Reese
January 17, 2006: "Leaving the Land" by Stephen C. Behrendt
January 16, 2006: "The Clown's Mother" by Brent Pallas
November 25, 2004: "Founder's day" by Bob Hicok
November 24, 2004: "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004: "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
November 22, 2004: "Close Quarters" by Cathryn Essinger
September 25, 2004: "Dry Brush Painting of Winter Crows" by Barry Sternlieb
September 23, 2004: "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
September 22, 2004: "Keep and Give Away" by Susan Meyers
September 21, 2004: "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
September 20, 2004: "Indian River Inlet" by Fleda Brown
March 10, 2004: "See! I Will Not Forget You. I Have Carved You on the Palm of My Hand." by Thomas Reiter
March 9, 2004: "Mary Rockwell Talks to Her Son in the Hospital after He's Been Stabbed During a Fencing Lesson" by Julianna Baggott
August 20, 2003: "Water Rising" by Fleda Brown
August 19, 2003: "Neither the Season, nor the Place" by Susan Meyers
August 18, 2003: "Revival" by Lynn Powell
June 7, 2003: "The Reliquary" by Ann Townsend
June 5, 2003: "Hieronymus and the Lion" by Maurya Simon
June 3, 2003: "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
May 1, 2003: "Heron" by John Drury
April 29, 2003: "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002: "Brains" by Rodney Jones
December 16, 2002: Heaven by Natasha Saje
September 9, 2002: "My Emotions Are Like Fish" by John Brehm

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