‘Stand Up’ with Cathy Park Hong & Mores McWreath at The New Museum March 21, 2013: In conjunction with the "Stand Up" symposium on March 30, the New Museum is hosting "The Rub," a collaborative online chapbook by Cathy Park Hong and the video artist Mores McWreath. “The Rub” is an e-chapbook of GIFs and haiku that explores shame and failure in stand-up and online comedy. Poems explore the viewer’s obsession with [...] by Harriet Staff

Hanging Out With Cathy at the Bar February 14, 2013: At the corner of the hill where our street meets a thoroughfare you can find a gallery, a vintage store, & bar. The vintage store, Nvision, is gorgeous. I stop in from time to time. Though often I just soak up the looks she's arrayed in the window, especially pretty to see late at night as she keeps the displays lit after closing. The [...] by Dana Ward

Catherine Wagner Reading Posted at City Lights Blog December 10, 2012: Thanks, City Lights, for posting this Catherine Wagner reading in all its glory! Bounce over and have a watch. by Harriet Staff

Some Notes on Catherine Wagner’s Nervous Device November 26, 2012: Over at HTMLGiant, Jessica Comola ponders the need for coherence in Catherine Wagner's latest collection, Nervous Device. After describing how her copy of the book has been destroyed (out of frustration) Comola writes: So why am I frustrated with this unassuming, 73-page collection, particularly since I’ve been a Wagner fan since her [...] by Harriet Staff

Constantly Bathing in the Semantic Folds of the New Lana Turner Content November 21, 2012: Issue #5 of the always-revelatory Lana Turner is out, and contains among its gemlike wonders some poetry from Catherine Wagner (also featured maintenant at PEN, but we digress), Claudia Rankine, Sandra Simonds, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Jackqueline Frost, Joe Luna, Jorie Graham, Douglas Piccinnini, Cole Swensen, and Daniel Tiffany; and plentiful [...] by Harriet Staff

Catherine Wagner & Christine Hume Read/Perform at MOCAD November 6, 2012: Hey Detroit friends! Be sure to check out Cathy Wagner and Christine Hume performing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit this Thursday (7pm, and it's free!). To give you a sense of what to expect, here are a few words on Wagner: Catherine Wagner will perform poems from her new book, Nervous Device (City Lights). The book takes [...] by Harriet Staff

A Conversation between Anthony McCann and Catherine Wagner October 25, 2012: Hop on over to LARB for this interview Anthony McCann conducted with Catherine Wagner. Here, Wagner talks about "lifeliness" and revision: AM: First, a question about “lifeliness.” Then, I want to ask about revision. Your thoughts here reminded immediately of the intro-note to your book and the scene it stages or re-stages where [...] by Harriet Staff

Catherine Wagner Is Real Life Cathy in New Interview About Nervous Device October 4, 2012: You were directed to Catherine Wagner's newest, Nervous Device, just the other day. Lucky for us, Wagner has just been interviewed about the book at Art Animal. Elizabeth Coleman mentions Wagner's shifts in demeanor from "mortally shy" (as Wagner self-describes) to "disarmingly honest" (Coleman's thinking). Beautifully, Wagner explains it [...] by Harriet Staff

Publishers Weekly Reviews Catherine Wagner’s Fourth Collection, Nervous Device September 20, 2012: Oh, we are so excited. Publishers Weekly has taken a liking to Catherine Wagner's newest book, Nervous Device, which is out in October from City Lights Spotlight series, edited by Garrett Caples. PW writes: Wagner’s fourth collection contains poems of memory and dark artifice. She writes with an obscure, magnetic lens. Wagner’s [...] by Harriet Staff

Summer Edition of Poetic Labor Project Features Jamie Townsend, Anna Vitale, Josef Kaplan, and Catherine Wagner July 23, 2012: The newest installment of The Poetic Labor Project is up, featuring a "new set of texts considering poetry, politics, and labor" by Jamie Townsend, Anna Vitale, Catherine Wagner, and Josef Kaplan. What a lineup, seriously. You can read these beauts at the blog or download them as a PDF. For now, might we fawn over Cathy Wagner: "I work at a [...] by Harriet Staff