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Catherine Barnett

Interfaith Chapel, Main Sanctuary

September 16, 2025, 5:00 PM

Catherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (selected by Publishers Weekly as a "Best Books 2024" and included in NPR's "2024: Books We Love"); Human Hours (Believer Book Award, New York Times "Best Poetry of 2018" selection); The Game of Boxes (James Laughlin Award); and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Beatrice Hawley Award). A Guggenheim and Civitella Ranieri fellow, she received a 2022 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Whiting Award, among other recognitions. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, The NY Review of Books, The Yale Review, The Nation, Harper’s, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in NYU's MFA Program in Creative Writing and works as an independent editor.