CAITLIN COWAN

Poet, pop culture writer, arts educator.

Caitlin Cowan's debut full-length collection of poetry is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press (2024). Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Best New Poets 2021, The Rumpus, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Missouri Review, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, SmokeLong Quarterly, Entropy, and elsewhere. She serves as the Chair of Creative Writing at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and writes the weekly poetry & pop culture blog PopPoetry.

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I write about the intersection of poetry with popular culture at PopPoetry. You can subscribe to the newsletter to have explainers, writing prompts, book reviews, and more delivered right to your inbox!

Featured.

"Letter to My Long Distance Lover When It's Over" is featured online at SWWIM.

You can listen to me read three of my poems for Anomaly's Outside Roe folio on bodily autonomy and reproductive justice.

My poem, "Half Past," won the Mississippi Review Prize and was featured in in MR 41.1-2.

Get to know me.

An Interview with Caitlin Cowan
Blue Lake Public Radio

RCer Spot: Caitlin Cowan
University of Michigan Residential College

Contributor Spotlight: An Interview with Caitlin Cowan
Rappahannock Review

Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Caitlin Cowan
SmokeLong Quarterly

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