06/26/10

I was first published in 1975, and my long career in business writing includes technical, marketing and fundraising, as well as literary pieces. I can provide samples of writing upon request. Email me at cathy[at]cathymcguire[dot]com.

I have been focusing my literary efforts on poetry for the past two years, and am pleased to have had 150 poems accepted, with 17 this year and 52 acceptances in 2009. I was  a featured poet at the Springfield Public Library 225, Fifth St. Springfield, on April 28, 2009, a featured reader at the William Stafford birthday celebration in Corvallis on Jan 31, 2010 (Benton Country library), and taught a class "Ready,Set, Submit!" at the Fooling With Words all-day event at LBCC on April 3, 2010. On Friday, May 7th, I taught a one-hour workshop on poetry, alchemy & mythology for NW Poet's Concord in Newport. I have two readings in the Portland area this summer. Last summer, I read poems at the Perceptions launch party in Troutdale, and the Denali and Thresholds launch parties in Eugene.

I currently have a chapbook and a full-length manuscript of poetry going the rounds of contest and publishing houses.

A partial list of where I've been published (in no particular order):

Online: New Verse News, Smoking Poet; FutureCycle;  melusine, The Road Not Taken, Adagio Verse Quarterly; Rhythm;  MReview, The Enchanted Conversation,

Anthologies: The Quizzical Chair, Tuesday, Verseweavers; Portland Lights; Raising Our Voices; Poetry Against the War;  Out of Line

Magazines: Main Street Rag; Windfall; California Quarterly; Folio; Tapjoe; Into the Teeth of the Wind; Mobius; Plainsong; Hazmat Review; Bogg; Arnazella; Connecticut River Review; Cape Rock; Mid-America Poetry Review; Poetry in Motion (Portland buses and MAX trains); Green Fuse; Fireweed; Crab Creek Review; Poetry NW, Avocet, Nebo, Tidal Basin Review, The Lyric, Greensilk.

My Chapbook: Joy Holding Stillness
 

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