Catherine Jagoe
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    • Bloodroot >
      • Dislocations
      • Passport
      • Burial Ground
    • News from the North >
      • Arctica Islandica
      • In the Heartland
      • Dog on the Median of the Kennedy Expressway, Chicago
    • Casting Off >
      • Man in a Parking Lot
      • This State
      • On Speaking French After Twenty Years
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  • Essays
    • Finding the Springs
    • Voracious
    • Losing North
    • On the Van Galder Bus
    • Homecoming Stew
    • Manhandled
    • Fossils
    • Black Walnut
    • The Ambassador and the Assassin
    • Vanishing Acts
    • Things That Matter
    • A Ring of Bells
    • Kitchen Table c. 1970
    • Moving
    • Language Lessons
    • Cycling Home
    • Eight Belles
    • Selfishness
    • Learning to Ski Skate
  • Audio & Video
    • Watching the Chimney Swifts at Dusk (audio)
    • Road Trips (audio)
    • Mud Season (audio)
    • Swimming (audio)
    • Driving to Door County (audio)
    • Dandelions (audio)
    • Wisconsin Food (audio)
    • Fall (audio)
    • Woodcocks (audio)
    • Biking (audio)
    • The Music of Words (video)
  • Translations
    • Poetry Translations
    • Voice & Shadow
    • Reborn in Ink
    • My Name is Light
    • That Bringas Woman
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    • La mujer en los discursos de género
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Poems

Catherine's first full-length poetry book, Bloodroot (2016), explores themes of migration, roots, uprooting and home. It won the Settlement House American Poetry Prize, awarded annually to a collection of poems by a first-generation American. More information can be found here. It subsequently won two other awards.

Her first chapbook of poems, Casting Off (2007), examines the experience of pregnancy and early motherhood. A selection from this collection can be read here. 

Her second chapbook, News from the North ​(2015), is a cycle of place-based poems. To order, click here. One of the poems from this collection, "Dog on the Median," was set to music by composer Jasper Wald Sussman and premiered by Madison Chamber Choir in 2017; the recording can be heard on Wald Sussman's website.
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