Poetry

Five Poems

“Where but to think is to be full of sorrow,” “Unoccupied Time,” “Still Life,” “How to Prepare,” “Ars Poetica”

By Catherine Barnett | March 4, 2024
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Amanda Wild/Flickr

“Where but to think is to be full of sorrow,” “Unoccupied Time,” “Still Life,” “How to Prepare,” “Ars Poetica”

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Catherine Barnett is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, The Game of Boxes, which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Human Hours. She teaches at New York University and Hunter College.

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