Author Archives: Caitlin
Selected Victims of Ted Bundy: Washington State and Oregon
The following blurb appears on the back of my chapbook. I am very pleased with it. “If there ever was a sharp-edged blend of investigative journalism and poetry, this is it. The writing of these spare poems meant the reading … Continue reading
Chapbook
Thomas Lux, a poet and wonderful teacher, has a wonderful Chapbook press, called Jeanne Duvall Editions. They publish an average of two chapbooks a year. They all have a similar layout, they are simple but with nice touches like vellum. … Continue reading
Their Lonely Betters
Recently I taught a number of Auden’s poems to my poetry class. I was very pleased by how his work was so admired by them. One student admitted that he was looking forward to tweeting several lines. Others repeated lines … Continue reading
On Author Names
My name in till recently has been Caitlin Thomson. “Thomson without a P.” A line I have repeated many times, and will live to repeat many more. When I was younger, people would often try and convince me that I … Continue reading
A Piece of the Storm
Mark Strand read at the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival in 2011. I had only sporadically read his poems before, and was not expecting much. I was thoroughly impressed and soon afterwards, purchased Blizzard of One, his book of poems that … Continue reading
Balancing Writing
In literary circles, the discussion of a writing life almost always involves frustration with writing and time. Time is something almost everyone seems to be lacking in when it comes to writing, because life requires balance, but it also demands … Continue reading
A City Winter
A City Winter by Frank O’Hara is an unseasonal poem that i’ve been rereading lately. I don’t know if it’s helping my relationship with the city. It is a poem in part’s and while I very much like the first … Continue reading
Killer Verse
Killer Verse is an anthology of poems about murder and Mayham. It was edited by the poets Kurt Brown and Harold Schechter, for Everyman’s Library, which is published by Knopf. It is a great, varied anthology that includes formal versed, … Continue reading
Prose for Poet’s (Part 1)
Even as a child, I read a lot, averaging about a book a day. Now the books I read tend to be much longer and since my time is more limited, I usually read about a hundred books a year. … Continue reading