Catherine is the author of four full-length books and five chapbooks. All books are available through the publishers and through Amazon, or directly from the author by contacting her.
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Perennial Cosmology
The poems in Perennial Cosmology were written over the past two years as my partner and I lived through his cancer diagnosis, treatment, remission, and the four seasons. This became what defined the structure of our life and the place we live. While sequencing the poems, it became apparent to me that the life-death cycle in nature and in everyday living is the abode for the poems. Our bodies are also abodes that influence how we see and interact with each other, our communities, and the world. There are poems about love, loss, grief, recovery, and gratitude; about marginalized folks, political victims, and joyful reunions—all in the cultural-societal abode we collectively share.
$13 from dancing girl press, 2026
Solitude, Tarot & the Corona Blues
Kelsay Books, 2022
Like a third eye, the poems in Catherine Arra’s Solitude, Tarot & the Corona Blues reach beyond mere physical sight to the enlightened realm of the spiritual. — Jo Pitkin
Deer Love
Dos Madres Press, 2021
Arra’s sensitive and beautifully crafted poems foster an awareness of the silent, sentient, soulful animals with which we coexist and how often they are at our mercy to survive.
Her Landscape, Poems Based on the Life of Mileva Marić Einstein
Finishing Line Press, 2020
Arra’s moving poetry collection casts a dazzling spotlight on the life of Mileva Marić Einstein, first wife of Albert Einstein.
(Women in Parentheses)
Aldrich Press/Kelsay Books, 2019
Women in Parentheses is a delightful, important, sexy, smart, and sassy collection of poems about women caught between the concrete and abstract, the real and imagined—confines, parentheses, sometimes cultural, psychological, sexual, or of their own making.
Writing in the Ether
Dos Madres Press, 2018
The poems and short prose in Catherine Arra’s Writing in the Ether were born from the connective tissue of memory, the bones of the past, and the spirit that insists not only upon seeing and remembering, but upon reconciling “the holy and the unholy” to embrace what is.
Tales of Intrigue & Plumage
FutureCycle Press, 2017
In a world rife with discord and discontent, frequently bound and blinded by technology, Catherine Arra turns our gaze to nature and the wild.
Loving from the Backbone
Flutter Press, 2015
Loving from the Backbone is a collection of love poems and a little erotica. Catherine Arra's intent in gathering the poems, many of which were scattered throughout various notebooks and journals, is to celebrate the loving of everyday.
Slamming & Splitting
Red Ochre Press, 2014
Catherine Arra's first chapbook of poems was a 2013 winner of the Red Ochre Press Chapbook Contest. Arra takes the reader through the subterranean layers and avalanches of divorce without sentimentality, blame, easy answers or magnanimous forgiveness.