the poetry box

Annie Bloom's welcomes local poets Cathy Cain and Piper Bringman, whose new collections are published by The Poetry Box. Cathy Cain, like a bee to flower, gathers thought from one encounter with nature to another. She speaks from many perspectives—as herself, as tree, as mushroom, or as goddess-hero. Sometimes playful, even mystical, Cain is deeply honest as she confronts the state of our relationship with the natural environment, with technology, and with what it means to be human. "A roadmap to abundance, Cathy Cain’s poetry expresses the impulse to reinvent ourselves outside of cyber noise and instead define ourselves within the boundaries of sentiencies around us." —Tricia Knoll, author of How I Learned to be White and Broadfork Farm "Thrumming with a wise and generous curiosity,…