Reiteration / Relationship coming soon for purchase!
Elizabeth Catanese
Elizabeth Catanese is a writer and artist who holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College and Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. Her poems have appeared in such publications as The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, The Stillwater Review, The Night Heron Barks, Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, Anomalous Press, Referential Magazine, and Calyx, and her books include The College Mindfulness Workbook (Kendall Hunt, 2021), the Mt. Olympus Theme Park series (ABDO, 2019), A Student’s Companion for How to Write Anything (Macmillan, 2019), and STEAM Jobs You’ll Love: Architecture and Construction (Rourke, 2018). Elizabeth’s mixed media paintings and art installations have been exhibited in galleries at the College of Saint Elizabeth, Bryn Mawr College, Mercer County College, and the Philadelphia Sketch Club. When not writing, creating, or teaching at Community College of Philadelphia, she is happily consumed by her most recent relationship reiteration: parenting her young twin sons, Dylan and Escher, who are her greatest teachers and deepest loves.
Cover art by: Elizabeth Catanese
Praise for Reiteration / Relationship:
Elizabeth Catanese writes from a deep place both intellectually and emotionally. Her poetry is personal, yet not as confession or cri de coeur. Rather, by skillful use of tone, indirection, and shifting point of view, she penetrates to the heart of the matter—that there is pain and beauty in the iterative nature of our relationships. Motifs arise, recur, and change shape in Catanese's poems and visual art; Reiteration / Relationship is the work of a highly creative and original poet.
—Barry George, author of
Sirens and Rain and The One That Flies Back
In Reiteration / Relationship, Catanese surprises the reader with photographs, sketches, repetition, and repurposing. This little chap is full of big things: coming out, blessings, elegies, the possibilities and limitations of love, and a literal giant heart. Through a unique blend of visual and textual narratives, the work explores the intricate dance of human connections, weaving together moments of vulnerability.
—Boston Gordon, author of Glory Holes
Elizabeth Catanese is an authentic voice in poetry, a multi-discipline dynamo and her Reiteration / Relationship is a heart-journey with its own touch of déjà vu. There is a tender cataloguing to these poems; a sense the poet is writing a song with variation, creating complexity and nuance. My breath and heartbeat are altered by it.
—Rogan Kelly, poet and editor of The Night Heron Barks