Catherine-Esther Cowie

Catherine-Esther Cowie is a poet and visual artist. She is from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia and has lived in Canada and the United States. She is a graduate of the Pacific University low-residency MFA program. Her work has appeared in The Common, West Branch Journal, SWWIM, Potomac Review, Southern Humanities Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Acalabash with work forthcoming in RHINO Poetry.

“What if I am the man who does the hurting?
He too stalks my mother’s songs.
He is first father like the woman is first mother.
I am the hand choking my glittered heart.
I am the one who undos the skull’s seams,
teeter towards the great reveal,
madwoman—”