If you attended Catholic school, or know someone who did, Catherine Doty’s For May is the Month of Our Mother may bring a smile.
Doty gave this reading at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown for Poetry & Democracy, presented by the Dodge Poetry Program on March 23, 2019.
Her session, In Praise: A Hundred Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Earth, featured reflections on gratitude and our common humanity, by eight poets and the musical trio The Parkington Sisters.
Video: Catherine Doty at ‘Poetry & Democracy’ in Morristown:
Here is more about the poet, from Dodge:
Catherine Doty is the author of Momentum, a volume of poems from Cavan Kerry Press, and Just Kidding, a collection of cartoons published by Avocet Press. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, among them Garrison Keillor’s More Good Poems for Hard Times and Billy Collins’s 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. She is the recipient of a Marjorie J Wilson Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ms Doty has worked as a visiting artist for the Frost Place, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New York Public Library, and many other organizations.
Featured poets were Janet Aalfs, Jan Beatty, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Catherine Doty, Rigoberto González, Joe Weil, and Rachel Wiley.
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