Collection
Cat Poems
Our feline friends reveal a sensory, and even spiritual, world beyond the human.

What The Cat Knows
February
Margaret Atwood
A Little Language
Robert Duncan
The Cats Will Know
Cesare Pavese
The cat’s song
Marge Piercy
- Robin Robertson
From the magazine:
Cat, Failing
Humans Are Animals Too
The Perfect Mother
Susan Griffin
- Alicia Ostriker
From the magazine:
The Orange Cat
- Ted Hughes
From the magazine:
Cat and Mouse
Adam Waking
Katie Peterson
- Sylvia Plath
From the magazine:
Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats
Mischief And Mayhem In Nine Lives
- Pattiann Rogers
From the magazine:
Finding the Cat in a Spring Field at Midnight
from Jubilate Agno
Christopher Smart
- George Starbuck
From the magazine:
Magnificat. Brave Cat at Snifter Fishbowl
- Gerald Stern
From the magazine:
Another Insane Devotion
Muier
William Carlos Williams
Cat Poems For Kids
Little Robin Redbreast
Anonymous
"Quick! quick! ..."
Anonymous
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear
Article
- Michael Robbins
From the magazine:
Perdita