Says new Poet Laura Catherine Abbey Hodges, “I need more of all those [Poet Laura] qualities in my life. I suspect I’m not the only one. And the idea of writing toward them, writing to foster them—well, I love that.”
Catherine Abbey Hodges is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently Empty Me Full (Gunpowder Press, 2024), and two chapbooks. Her first book, Instead of Sadness, won the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize; recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review, Inflectionist Review, SALT, Plant-Human Quarterly, Gyroscope Review, CALYX and elsewhere. Catherine serves as a staff reader for SWWIM and an advisory editor for Anacapa Review. English Professor Emeritus at Porterville College, she writes, teaches privately, watches the light change, and collaborates with musician Rob Hodges in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada. www.catherineabbeyhodges.com
About Catherine Abbey Hodges
Catherine Abbey Hodges is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently Empty Me Full (Gunpowder Press, 2024), and two chapbooks. Her first book, Instead of Sadness, won the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize; recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review, Inflectionist Review, SALT, Plant-Human Quarterly, Gyroscope Review, CALYX and elsewhere. Catherine serves as a staff reader for SWWIM and an advisory editor for Anacapa Review. English Professor Emeritus at Porterville College, she writes, teaches privately, watches the light change, and collaborates with musician Rob Hodges in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada.