
New Release
—A collection of 44 poems in two sections. The first section is comprised of 22 poems about living in Corona solitude, through several life transitions, and finding peace and gratitude in isolation. The second section is a series of 22 persona poems written in the imagined voices of the Major Arcana, or archetypes of the tarot.
Available at KelsayBooks.com and Amazon.
Catherine Arra
Author
with Catherine Arra on the writing of Deer Love and on writing in general. Cervena Barva Press Newletter, January 2022

–Photo by Dan Wilcox
Caffè Lena Reading, October 6, 2021
with Catherine Arra in Backstory of a Poem
Harbor Review of (Women in Parentheses) by Catherine Arra
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Read an in-depth about Loving from the Backbone with Catherine Arra conducted by Clare L. Martin, editor of MockingHeart Review.
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of Loving from the Backbone and Slamming & Splitting by Michael Dennis of Today’s Book of Poetry.
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Poetry Breakfast of Writing in the Ether by Catherine Arra
Putting Ghosts to Rest with Love: with Catherine Arra

Online Journal Publications
Bathing: Amethyst Review, April 2023
The Addict Talks About Steps: Unbroken, Issue 37, April 2023
Concealed Carry, New Verse News, March 2023
Bar Fight Tonight: Rye Whiskey Review, February 2023
Love Poem: Rat’s Ass Review, Spring/Summer 2023
Ode to My Aerolatte: Hobo Camp Review, Winter in the Cabin Issue, 2023
Addiction Riff: The Rye Whiskey Review, December, 2022
The Little Match Girl at 50, Magic Man: The 2River View, Winter 2023
In the Wake of Leaving: The Orchards Poetry Journal, Winter 2022
Her Feral Child: Stone Poetry Quarterly, November 2022
Tooth Fairy: Thimble Literary Magazine, Fall 2022
Wolf Prince: Panoplyzine, September 2022
Takes One to Know One: The Rye Whiskey Review, September 2022
The Summons: Stone Poetry Journal, May 2022
Boomerang, Corona Blues, The Devil, The Lovers: The Moon: Muddy River Poetry Review, Spring 2022
Like Water, Weeding: Verse-Virtual, April 2022
The Fool: The Piker Press, January 2022
The High Priestess: The Piker Press, December 13, 2021
Baby Car: Bindweed, Issue 11, November 13, 2021
Paradox: Rat’s Ass Review, Winter 2021
Badass: The Piker Press, October 18, 2021
Grief, a Hangover: Rye Whiskey Review, October 14, 2021
The Velocity of Shattering: Spillwords, August 18, 2021
Exodus: Rye Whiskey Review, Summer 2021
Brindisi, Ode to His Parrot: Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Summer 2021
Beauty in the Time of Corona: Hobo Camp Review, Spring 2021
Some Sweet: Nixes Mate Review, Winter 2021
Table: Panoply, A Literary Zine, January 2021
Ode to Forest: Muddy River Poetry Review, October 2020
Thunderstorm: Terrain.org, September 18, 2020
God’s Waiting Room: Writing In A Woman’s Voice, August 29, 2020
After Divorce: Writing In A Woman’s Voice, August 28, 2020
Novi Sad, 24 February 1922: Writing In A Woman’s Voice, June 13, 2020
Mileva: Writing In A Woman’s Voice, June 12, 2020
Speak 2: Writing In A Woman’s Voice, May 17, 2020
Espionage: Writing In A Woman’s Voice, May 16, 2020
Don’t Misunderstand: Writing In A Woman’s Voice, March 24, 2020
After Lieserl: Writing In A Woman’s Voice, March 23, 2020
Stepping Stone, Thought Experiments/Sex, Elsa, Premonitions: Peacock Journal, January 2020
Liebe: Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2019
Like the Big Bang: Panoply, A Literary Zine
Unsexed, Fall Back, Child, After the Flood: Pink Panther Magazine, (pp.40-41)
In the End: Writing in a Woman’s Voice
Ode to That Which Cannot Be Named: Whale Road Review
Thanksgiving Eve: Muddy River Review
Perennial, Ballet of Palms, Seasons & Envy: Soul-Lit
White Spaces: Switched-on Gutenberg
Lessons in Gravity: MockingHeart Review
My House First, No Sanctum, Water Aerobics: Nixes Mate Review
Boyed: Flash Special-Blue Fifth Review, Blue Five Notebook Series
Lakeside Condo with View of 8th Hole and Sand Traps: Split Rock Review
Ashokan Eaglets & Dusk: Upstater
Advent, That Untended: MockingHeart Review
Winter Solstice, Lacuna, Eagle: Peacock Journal
The End of Night, How the Heart is Tuned, Mother’s Savasana: Peacock Journal
(Outdated) An Antique Cafe: Chronogram
Anniversary: Postcard Poems and Prose
The Equality of Opposition: Soul-Lit.
What’s Underneath: Pioneertown
For No Reason at All: Wildness
The Stain of an Angel: Compass
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About the Author

Catherine Arra is a former high school English and writing teacher. Since leaving the classroom in 2012, her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous literary journals online and in print, and in several anthologies. She is the author of Solitude, Tarot & the Corona Blues (Kelsay Books, 2022), Deer Love (Dos Madres Press, 2021), Her Landscape, Poems Based on the Life of Mileva Marić Einstein (Finishing Line Press, 2020), (Women in Parentheses) (Aldrich Press/Kelsay Books, 2019), Writing in the Ether (Dos Madres Press, 2018), and three earlier chapbooks, Tales of Intrigue & Plumage (FutureCycle Press, 2017), Loving from the Backbone (Flutter Press, 2015), and Slamming & Splitting (Red Ochre Press, 2014). A Pushcart nominee, Arra is a native of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York, where she teaches part-time and facilitates local writing groups.
~Photo by Jennifer B. Muirhead Photography