Catherine Pond

Biography

Catherine Pond is the author of Fieldglass (Southern Illinois UP, 2021). She is the 2025 recipient of the American Poetry Review’s Stanley Kunitz Prize and her poems have been printed recently in Oxford Poetry, Gulf Coast, and The Missouri Review. Pond holds a PhD from the University of Southern California.

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POETRY / Summer 2025

Pathfinder #18700 Oslo

By Catherine Pond

Fog flowed in a continuous river through the trees. / Inside the river, a little light. / Light trapped in gray smoke, beckoning.

POETRY / Summer 2025

Drive My Car

By Catherine Pond

In half-light of morning the red car appears / over the bridge, suspension wires like streaks of rain. 

POETRY / Summer 2025

Approach

By Catherine Pond

Stars curl in the shape / of a scorpion’s tail and sparrows / float like gold flecks over the fields. If it's true / death is just a portal through which to pass letters.