Cati Porter is founder and editor-in-chief of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and associate editor (poetry) for Babel Fruit. She is the author of Seven Floors Up (Mayapple Press, 2008), and the chapbooks small fruit songs: prose poems (Pudding House Publications, 2008), (al)most delicious, an ekphrastic series after Modigliani's nudes (forthcoming in 2010 from Dancing Girl Press), and what Desire makes of us, a series written during NaPoWriMo 2009 (forthcoming from Ahadada books as an e-book with illustrations by her sister, Amy Joy Payne). Her full-length manuscript-in-progress is tentatively titled The Myth of the Everyday. Her poems have been anthologized in Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor (No Tell Books), Letters to the World: Poems from the Women's Poetry Listserv (Red Hen Press), and White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (Demeter Press/York University, Canada), and appear widely online and in print.
Cati Porter lives in Riverside, California with her husband and two young sons.
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Birth of a Poetry Journal, Riverside Press Enterprise, The Guide, July 27 2006
Regional Poets to Share Literary Musings, Riverside Press Enterprise, The Guide, July 31 2008
The Third Area Poetry Readings, L.A.'s Downtownster Blog, June 23, 2009
Inlandia Institute Hosts a Fostering of Local Culture, UCR Highlander, October 20, 2009
Interviews:
In the December 2009 issue of Umbrella (which also includes a poetry feature)
On radio station KDVS's Dr. Andy's Poetry & Technology Hour
On the blog Fruitful
On the Writer's Digest Poetic Asides Blog
Or listen to a podcast interview on The Moe Green Poetry Hour
Poetry Collections:
Seven Floors Up, Mayapple Press, June 2008.
Available for purchase at select independent California bookstores (in San Francisco at Bolerium Books, or in Los Angeles at Stories Books, Skylight Books, and the Antioch University Los Angeles campus bookstore); on the web at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, through Mayapple Press; or order a signed copy directly from the author.
Read a review of Seven Floors Up, a ReadWritePoem Poetry Book Club Selection.
small fruit songs, Pudding House Publications, January 2008. Limited edition. Author copies sold out. Limited stock available in San Francisco at Bolerium Books and in Los Angeles at Skylight Books and Stories Books, or order through the Pudding House website.
Read a review of small fruit songs in the Chapbook Spotlight on the Blogalicious blog.
Forthcoming in 2010:
(al)most delicious, Dancing Girl Press
what Desire makes of us, Ahadada Books
Details TBA.
Miscellany:
"Greed" was named a finalist in Crab Creek Review's 2009 poetry competition and is pending publication.
"Administering My Dog's Cancer Therapy, I Think About My Sons", Winner of the 2006 Gravity & Light poetry competition, appears in the anthology White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood as well as her book, Seven Floors Up, and on the Downtownster Blog.
"Where She Is", which was shortlisted for the The Binnacle's Ultra Short Competition (University of Maine, Machias), appears in the online journal kaleidowhirl as well as her book, Seven Floors Up.
Journals:
Crab Creek Review / Umbrella / Fringe / Wicked Alice / more Umbrella / kaleidowhirl & kaleidowhirl again / mamazine / Com[motion] / Other Voices International / Literary Mama / Sunspinner / Banyan Review & Banyan Review again / qarrtsiluni / Poetry Southeast / Mannequin Envy / Poetry Midwest / Phantom Seed / MotherVerse / Vermilion Literary Project (USD), Mosaic (UCR), and Muse (RCC), Pomona Valley Review (Cal Poly Pomona)
Anthologies:
White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (Demeter Press/York U., Canada)
Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Red Hen Press)
Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel -- Second Floor (No Tell Books)
Reviews:
Alex Grant's Fear of Moving Water, in Smartish Pace
Diane Lockward's What Feeds Us in Poetry Southeast
Ann Fisher-Wirth's Five Terraces in Poetry Southeast
Catherine Daly's Locket in Galatea Resurrects
Charles Bennett's Wintergreen in Galatea Resurrects
Alex Grant's Chains & Mirrors in Rattle
Deborah Bogen's Landscape with Silos in Rattle
