01/06/12

My Literary News

I'm very pleased to announce that my first official chapbook Palimpsests is out! I was very happy to be able to do the cover artwork as well.

Check the UC website (www.utteredchaos.org) for more information and for their interview with me.

Uttered Chaos

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My Art and Craft News

My etsy site is going strong again --  www.cathymcguire.etsy.com  I am trying to put new items up every couple of weeks.

2011: Recent poetry acceptances include: Menopause Press (3), Blue Earth Review, Memoir (And), New Verse News, and GrassRoots Books e-zine.

I was honored when my poem about the Japanese crisis was accepted and posted on New Verse News, on March 15th, and they also published "Kirk Turns Eighty", a fun poem.  Other 2011 acceptances: Blue Lotus, Pacific Review, and BirdsEye Review.

My total acceptances for 2010 was 45. I've been busy getting a couple of book length and chapbook length manuscripts off to contests, and putting together a fun chapbook of poems about and illustrations of my chickens. The two latest poems online are at Untitled Country: Afternimage, a ternzanelle and Unobtainium.  I have now had more than 176 poem acceptances, another milestone for me (I'm pushing hard for 200!) This year I am in Nibble, Avocet (that's five in two years there),   Sketchbook, Dark Mountain and  Grey Sparrow Press, which shares an issue with the headliner, Maxine Kumin. Such heady company! Currently you can see my poems online (archived) at New Verse News, The Enchanted Conversation, and FutureCycle.

I have had wonderful opportunities to read and/or teach in 2010. This summer, I read poetry in Portland for Taddle Creek and in Lake Oswego for Joan Maiers monthly gathering.  I was honored to be a featured reader at the William Stafford birthday celebration in Corvallis in January (Benton Country library). I taught the class "Ready,Set, Submit!" at the Fooling With Words all-day event at LBCC in April and in May, I gave a one-hour workshop on poetry, alchemy & mythology for NW Poet's Concord in Newport.  I have also taken on (again) the webmaster job for Oregon State Poetry Association.

2009: I am happy to say I had 52 acceptances this year! Some are in print, and some online. You can find my poems online at melusine, The Road Not Taken, MReview, The Smoking Poet (archives),  and FutureCycle. I have poetry in two recent anthologies: three in The Quizzical Chair (available from Laura LeHew's uttered chaos press, and one in the Tuesday anthology (thanks to the Tuesday group for letting me be a guest!) and have won several prizes in state contests around the country.

My work, both art and writing, comes from my journey in the world, my sense of playfulness and my appreciation of nature and the mystery of life. It also comes from the dark nights; the losses and the lost times... forever striving to understand what it means to live.

I am available in the Oregon Willamette Valley or via internet to assist your writing or creative project; email me at cathy[at]cathymcguire[dot]com for more information.

Prints and Collage	Sculpture & Polymer Clay work
I enjoy mixed media and printmaking, and have a wide variety of images, some for sale.	I create assemblage, many in shrine or "wayside" format, from found objects or polymer, low-fire clay or wood. I also make translucent polymer votive holders.
Jewelry	Writing & Poetry
My work uses polymer clay, some have glass beads, some found objects.	I have been writing poetry since I was first introduced to it , sometime in 3rd grade. It has been a major thread in my life. I have published over 170 poems and  a chapbook. On this page, I'll share some of mine, and link to others that I admire.