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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a good one, you guys. I think you'll like it.

Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've been trying to paint more just for fun and here's one I did of my husband falling asleep on the couch watching wrestling. I call it "Quarter Past Twelve"

a painting of a moody night-time interior scene of a man in a red shirt asleep on a couch. a tv mounted on the wall is on but unclear what's playing. through an arched doorway, a spill of warm light across the floor.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 27/07/2026

love a perfect little prose poemy *snapshot*, like this today from Catherine Weiss www.havehashad.com/2v9xy

July 27, 2026
Texas
Catherine Weiss
We moved in February, left all the cars parked along on E 11th street, lumps under Manhattan snow. Rented a McMansion in the ‘burbs, filling the carpeted bedrooms up with unauthorized subletting roommates. Jake joined a band, which played covers of John Mayer songs and Wagon Wheel at bars in Austin and Shreveport. Jake, who played cello and didn’t love me anymore. None of us had jobs. I volunteered in the back office of the humane society where I was chastised for investigating petty cash thievery of another volunteer. I adopted a fluffy white puppy. I didn’t write a screenplay. By June it was too hot to walk barefoot on pavement. I tried to be good. I tried so hard to make it work. Before Texas, I didn’t know dogs could scream.

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

guy who insists on pronouncing Achilles the way Scott Brick says it in those goofy Ender sequels audiobooks :(

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HAD @havehashad.com · 27/06/2026

don't miss these two perfect Catherine Weiss from Thursday! "I worry our snail was tired of being alone. Once I rode the L six stops past midnight to meet a Craigslist stranger who asked to paint my portrait, as long as I was wearing white." www.havehashad.com/mcxl7

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Two Poems by Catherine Weiss

Fishtank As kids, we kept tetras (boring), a cory or two (better), and memorably, a mystery snail who’d crawl up the filter and jump— He’d go repeatedly, which delighted us, but I have since learned…

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I've got two poems up at @havehashad.com today, and both are about being young www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...

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June 25, 2026
TWO POEMS
Catherine Weiss
Fishtank

As kids, we kept tetras (boring),
a cory or two (better),
and memorably, a mystery snail
who’d crawl up the filter and jump—
He’d go repeatedly, which delighted us,
but I have since learned from Reddit
his antics may have been a distress behavior.
A leaping snail might be starving,
or trying to escape a poorly maintained tank,
no air to breathe. Sometimes it’s overcrowding.
I worry our snail was tired of being alone.
Once I rode the L six stops
past midnight to meet a Craigslist stranger
who asked to paint my portrait,
as long as I was wearing white.

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

my step-great grandmother, Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree Jr, wrote the novella they're adapting, and I'm so excited this movie is going to be so good and so uncomfortable lol I WILL BE THERE OPENING NIGHT let's gooooooooooooo

deadline.com

Sophie Thatcher Joins Jennifer Kent’s 'The Girl Who Was Plugged In’

Sophie Thatcher Set To Star In Jennifer Kent’s 'The Girl Who Was Plugged In’ As Goodfellas Launches Sales - Cannes Market

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

my dad is funny. he likes to talk on the phone and he's a film archivist by profession so he'll do things like call me up and just tell me about weird home movies they have in the collection and keep going until his phone dies--which is what happened just now. it's like a little cliffhanger.

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

once on a dating app I saw a guy’s profile that said “I enjoy films such as We Bought a Zoo” which is very funny but also the set-up & payoff of that simple sentence encapsulates my whole deal as a poet -an inscrutable art made legible -highbrow expectation w/ lowbrow execution -matt damon 👍

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

remembering the time i tweeted a take about poets who humblebrag by calling their own poems “weird” and someone scolded me for being disrespectful to witches and wizards

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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We return tomorrow with a new combination of prose and poetry, but before then, have a look at these mordantly funny poems by our recent contributor Catherine Weiss (@catherineweiss.bsky.social) in BOMB. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

the found poetry of the unhinged email subject lines from a democrat running for office trying desperately to get $15 dollars

a screenshot of email inbox all from Jordan Wood with subject lines:
"fucking pussy"
falling apart
final 2 hours
I'm begging you, Catherine
my gay marriage, Catherine
not a typo
"little son of a bitch, socialist c*cksuck...
dead in the water
I sincerely apologize, Catherine
"the enemy... are people of color"
I'm out
"you both belong in camps until you die"
I'm begging, Catherine
before it's too late
stunning defeat
"selfish pieces of sh*t"

The emails are all dated within the past week.
The inbox background is a photo of a jellyfish.

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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

“The celebrity is hi gloss and baby talk. No afternoons at the laundromat, never swinging by the drive thru after work. She won't be dialing zero and holding to speak with a health insurance…” From “The Celebrity” by Catherine Weiss in ISSUE 29!

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Catherine Weiss "The Celebrity" — THE SHORE

POETRY

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

happy to have a poem published in @petrichorlit.bsky.social today! they've been a wonderful home for several of my poems throughout the years so it's very exciting to be included in the 10 year anniversary issue.

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#30 – Catherine Weiss – petrichor

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

this was one of my poems published in BOMB last year (truly a highlight of my poetic life) but I feel like it might remain, unfortunately, somewhat relevant

a poem: black text on white background

BOMB

Watching Titanic Instead of CNN
We’re in the second half, where everyone knows this shit is going underwater.
The old men are dressed in their finest evening attire, sipping brandy
as the frothing freezing sea maws up the ship’s throat to wet their spats.
Our heroes are chased by gun-wielding Billy Zane into the lower decks—
up top, the string quartet plays over a montage of hopeless passengers.
My favorite is when the guy doinks off the big propellor. Not enough boats,
Jack. Not enough life jackets, Jack. Look, Jack, you’re going in the water.
Nothing we can do about that now. Movie’s been out for twenty-seven years, Jack
No way to change the ending. Oh, are ya blue, Jack? Don’t ya get it yet, Jack?

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Very excited to say I have two poems in this issue of The Shore!

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I was at AWP but I left early so I could go home and paint "Boromir Tastes the Ring"

a photo of an amateur painting depicting Boromir from Lord of the Rings tasting the one ring with blue sky and mountains in the background. above the painting is a reference image from the movie, printed out and taped to the easel, of Boromir holding the one ring, but not tasting it.

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

my crankiest poetry take is currently that while i like erasure poetry in theory, a lot of it is simply reversing the position of the original text, and that's so boring. and don't get me started on erasures of kind rejection emails to make them sound mean lol

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

when there's popular media for 12 year old boys (john wick) everyone is basically fine with it conceptually but when a movie is meant for 12 year old girls (wuthering heights) all of a sudden there's some kind of crisis

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2026

AWP people, find us at table T704 next week! We'll have copies of the first ever print issue of TBQ. (A sampler of some of our best!) 5 bucks, 50 pages, glossy, full color and it has a poem in the shape of beating Henry Kissinger to death! Guaranteed to be collectible after the cease and desist!

TBQ in print available for five bucks at AWP

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I made one of those cool AWP graphics

graphic with pink background and a polaroid photo of the author's face and hands. text reads: Catherine Weiss

find me at AWP!

-I won't tell you where or when
-know only that at your absolute lowest point, when you're dehydrated and demoralized, asking why even go through the motions of being a writer, I'll appear, eucatastrophic angel that I am, to guide you back to joy
-or I'll periodically be lurking around booth 404 (game over books) so try there..?

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I bet there's a Winter Olympics event that I could medal in just by virtue of having the most mass. Like yes, I'd die on impact or whatever, but I bet there's something.

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Wuthering Heights 2: Wuthered Ever After Heathcliff Strikes Back 2 Wuthered 2 Heightsier Wuthering Heights II: Moor and Moor

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

a Winter Olympics poem from Griefcake

TURNING ON THE WINTER OLYMPICS
AFTER A LOSS
To the TV, I mutter I just want to see one of these guys eat it and the competitor currently landing a complex combo of spins and twists immediately crumples his body against the hard-packed slope, out of running for a medal.
I didn't do this to him but I did put it on the table.
I'm rooting for the Swede who enthusiastically barks at the cameraman like a seal. He eventually gets bronze.
An American snags silver. The men's freeski Big Air Olympic gold goes to Norway's Birk Rud. These are X Games guys, Olympians who looks like burnouts.
I like everything about this. The rough sound of skis and snow, and then the silence as a human soars through the air. I think there should be more sports where people fly. Consider how strong your legs must be to land without crashing every time. Consider getting up after you fail as the world watches. And what kind of person does it take to try Big Air for the first time? To look up at the sky—at God—and say no worries man, I'm coming to you.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Abolish and prosecute.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

in honor of Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For Gollum, here's a LOTR fanfic I wrote in ~1991, recovered from a file on the old family Tandy 1000. if, at any point in the upcoming film, Ian McKellen cages Andy Serkis and feeds him buttons, you'll know I got ripped off by WB

a page of printed text in all caps.
BY CATHERINE
THE SHORT VERSION OF THE HOBBIT
GOLLUM WAS THINKING ABOUT GETTING THE RING BACK. HE SAW BILBO BUT HE DID NOT KNOW THAT BILBO HAD IT. GANDALF CHASED GOLLUM OUT OF THE LAKE. GOLLUM SCREAMED, "AAAAAA." GOLLUM HID UNDER A ROCK.
HE WAS SCARED AND IT WAS RAINING. HE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE THE RING BACK FOR ALL THIS. ALL THAT HE WANTED THEN WAS TO GET BACK TO HIS HOME.
BIFUR AND BOMBUR WERE LOOKING IN THE WOODS FOR GANDALF. OIN AND GLOIN CAUGHT GOLLUM AND THEN THEY WERE LOOKING AROUND FOR GANDALF TO SHOW HIM THAT THEY HAD CAUGHT GOLLUM.
ALL THE TIME GANDALF WAS HIDING FROM THE RAIN UNDER ANOTHER ROCK.
ALL FOUR DWARVES FOUND GANDALF. GANDALF PUT GOLLUM IN A CAGE.
GANDOLF JUST GAVE HIM BUTTONS TO EAT. "HE WON'T DO ANY HARM IN THERE, " SAID GANDALF.
AT LAST THEY FOUND BILBO. BILBO SAID," FOR A NEW DAY TO COME, ITS WORTH 16 DOLLARS." ALL THE DWARVES LAUGHED. EVEN GANDALF LAUGHED.
THE END.

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

i dunno but i think it's weird when people who are not and have never been fat make jokes about the cultural ubiquity of weight loss drugs i know you think you don't hate fat people and you're punching up or being helpful but *whispers* i don't trust that you don't also kinda hate fat people

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

when i was a kid i was an elf/helper giving toys to the smaller kids after they saw santa. one girl asked for a barbie, so i gave her a wrapped box that was plausibly barbie shaped. it was in fact a barbie but instead of thanks or praise i got yelled at by the mom and this is how i became the grinch

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

i'm very proud of the publications i had in 2025! i'm linking these two poems in @eldiagram.bsky.social "The Multitool" is a poem which maaaaybe contains my favorite last line of any poem i've ever written thediagram.com/25_2/weiss.h...

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DIAGRAM :: Catherine Weiss

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

tired of seeing all these prizes etc for poets with no books or one published collection. where are the opportunities for poets with 3 books but no one read them

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

it feels like ive aged a billion years since this happened but i did release a book this year

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It's our first year doing this, but -- here's our nominations for the 2026 Pushcart Prize! If you haven't checked these lovely pieces out already, you should go give them a read :)

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

sorry everybody i have been Less Online this month because my house got hit by lightning and burned down ⚡🏠🔥😜

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

i hope this is "Challengers but everybody's dead"

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I loved Tom Lehrer so much that when I was 13 I wrote a satiric poem (not being a composer) about my classmates and teachers but the school didn’t think it was funny, assumed it was some kind of scary list of targets, and I got sent to boarding school out of state. anyway RIP to a legend

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Truthout @truthout.org · 24/07/2025

As Gaza starves, 420,000 pallets of aid is sitting in warehouses awaiting approval for entry. Meanwhile, Israel is running a propaganda campaign attempting to blame its starvation plan on the very aid groups to whom it’s denying access.

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420k Aid Pallets Await Entry Into Gaza as Israel Blames Starvation on Aid Groups

Israel and GHF are trying to blame Israel’s slaughter and starvation of aid seekers on humanitarian groups.

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

DIAGRAM has been a dream publication for me for a long, long time, so i'm so happy to be able to say i have two poems in this issue!

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

apropos of nothing but when authors describe characters with "wide eyes" i know intellectually they usually mean A but my brain always translates to B

a rough hand drawn figure of two icons of faces. the circle marked A has big round eyes with a vertical arrow indicating tall. the circle marked B has two digon shaped eyes that are far apart with a horizontal arrow indicating width.

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

i guess people are talking about if the NYC subway is scary and i'll chime in on this one. sometimes people in the car with you are talking or sleepy or annoying. sometimes people even sing at you! i don’t care for the singing. but the subway is not scary. what it is is not very accessible

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.xyz · 18/06/2025

Grateful to @catherineweiss.bsky.social‬ for the opportunity to publish her poems—and this GIF of a guy doinking off the propeller of the Titanic. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

finally going to the salon for a haircut that makes me feel less like an old crone but afterwards having to come to terms with that while it's not exactly a ramona flowers haircut, it's not exactly NOT a ramona flowers haircut

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