Book News::
Cait Weiss Orcutt's manuscript won Zone 3 Press' First Book Award judged by Douglas Kearney. The book, Cait's first, came out in print October 2017. http://www.zone3press.com/blog/view/caitlin-weiss-wins-2016-book-award-for-poetry
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Recent Publications:
Boston Review, "Frontier"
available to read at http://bostonreview.net/poetry/cait-weiss-orcutt-frontier
The Chattahoochee Review, Volume 36.1: “Ode to the Small Black” and “Sex Ed in the Boa Constrictor Classroom”
available for purchase at http://thechattahoocheereview.gpc.edu/onlinefeatures.htm
Chautauqua, Issue 14: "Charity"
available for purchase at https://chautauqua.submittable.com/submit/71695/pre-order-the-2017-issue-invention-and-discovery
Day One, Issue 3.22, "Welcome to the Moment"
available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/Day-One
FIELD, Issue 93: "Calabasas" & "The Prophets"
available to read at http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/FIELD/93.html#2
available for purchase at http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/field.html
FreezeRay Poetry, Issue 14: "Adoro Te Raging" & Adoro Te Destruction"
available to read at http://www.freezeraypoetry.com/cait-weiss-orcutt.html
Hobart, 07.19.16: “To the Loch Ness”
available to read at http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/to-the-loch-ness
interrupture,, Feb. 2018: "Confession"
http://interrupture.com/archives/feb_2018/cait_weiss/
JUKED, 03.08.16, "Lineage"
available to read at http://juked.com/2016/03/cait-weiss-lineage.asp
Notre Dame Review, Issue 42: “Family Portrait with Lana Turner” and “Spring in Genesta”
available for purchase at http://ndreview.nd.edu/archived-issues/ndr-42/
Pacifica, Issue 8: “Ode to the One Glove”
available for purchase at http://www.pacificareview.com/buy/
pacificREVIEW, Special Issue: Lurking Anonymity: "Bullet," "Hollywood" and "Play House"
available for purchase at http://tinyurl.com/pcfcreview
The Pinch, Issue 35.2: "Burlesque"
available for purchase at http://www.pinchjournal.com/
Prelude,, Issue 3: "Hallows," "Reseda," "What Blooms"
available to read at https://preludemag.com/contributors/cait-weiss/
Slipstream Magazine, Issue 34: "Chatsworth"
available for purchase at http://www.slipstreampress.org/issue34.html
Tahoma Literary Review, Issue 7: “Ode to the Glitz”
available for purchase at https://tahomaliteraryreview.com/current-issue-2/
The Tishman Review: “Spike Javelin Harpoon” and “Brute Physics”
available to read at http://www.thetishmanreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/TTR3.4OCT2017CS.compressed.pdf
Tupelo Quarterly, TQ7: "Vanderbilts"
available to read at http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/vanderbilts-by-cait-weiss/
Two Peach, Issue 3: “Northridge” and “Ode to the Golden”
available to read at http://twopeach.com/#/cait-weiss/
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Upcoming Publications:
Hayden's Ferry Review, "No Problemo" and "Single Kings of the Valley"
The Literary Review, "One of Two Parties"
the minnesota review, "Every Ship Is a Romantic Object"
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Upcoming Reviews:
Quarterly West: "Frida Kahlo, Fashion & the Ekphrasis of Lust: A Review of Shelley Wong's Rare Birds"
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Recent Interviews
An Open Book:, March 2017: http://www.anopenbookblog.org/tag/cait-weiss/
Sonora Review, December 2017: https://sonorareview.com/2017/12/06/like-fer-caesura-an-interview-with-cait-weiss-orcutt
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Recent Awards & Contest News:
Nominated for Best New Poets by Pacifica Literary Review, 2016
Nominated for Best New Poets by Tahoma Literary Review, 2016
First Book Award, Zone 3 Press, 2016: http://www.zone3press.com/blog/view/caitlin-weiss-wins-2016-book-award-for-poetry
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Pacifica Literary Review, 2016
Inprint C. Glenn Cambor/MD Anderson Foundation Fellowship, 2016
Top Four Finalist for the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2016
Finalist for the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship in Provincetown, 2016
Academy of American Poets/The Arthur Rense Prize 2016, Honorable Mention: "Ode to the Small Black"
AWP Intro Journal Project 2015, Honorable Mention: “Spike, Javelin, Harpoon”
Helen Earnhart Harley Creative Writing Fellowship Award 2015, Honorable Mention: “Maceration and Other Poems”
Tupelo Quarterly’s 2015 Poetry Contest, Finalist: “Vanderbilts”
Vandewater Poetry Award 2015, 3rd Place: “Calabasas and Other Poems”
Vandewater Poetry Award 2016, Honorable Mention: “Portrait of Family”
West Trestle Review's Cross Tie Poet of the Week: http://www.westtrestlereview.com/cross-ties/cross-tie-91415-cait-weiss
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Less Recent Publications:
Amethyst Arsenic, Issue 2.2: "Didion"& "Ride"
available to read at http://www.amethystarsenic.com/issues/2-2/cait-weiss.php
Anomalous, Issue 7: "This Is the Story of How I Got Sober Without Naming Names Like a Chump" & "The Whole Ending"
available to read at http://www.anomalouspress.org/7/32.weiss.story.php
available to read at http://www.anomalouspress.org/7/33.weiss.ending.php
Assisi, Issue 2: "Late Night Villanelle"
available to read at http://issuu.com/stfrancisny/docs/assisiv3i1_2/206
The Cortland Review, Issue 59: "Death Happens Slower"
available to read at http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/59/weiss.php
The Red Branch Journal, Issue 2: "Why You Aren't Sleeping"
available for purchase at http://redbranchjournal.com/number-two.html
What if Writing is Dreaming Together: Poetry and Prose from NY Writers Coalition: "Orbit," "Sky" & "Doubt: A Villanelle"
available for purchase at http://nywriterscoalition.org/bookstore/item/what-if-writing-is-dreaming-together/
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Recent & Upcoming Readings, Panels, Workshops & Performances:
"Grist, The Nashville Review and Zone 3," AWP Off-Site Reading
at Gaspar's Grotto, March 2018, Tampa, FL
"Poison Pen Reading Series," Reading
at Poison Girl, February 2018, Houston, TX
"Public Poetry Library Series," Reading
at TBA, February 2018, Houston, TX
"P O E T I N G: Houston," Reading
at Brazos Bookstore, January 2018, Houston, TX
"Gulf Coast Reading Series," Reading
at Rudyard's, January 2018, Houston, TX
“P O E T I N G: Los Angeles,” Reading
at UnUrban, December 2017, Santa Monica, CA
“Maps & Worlds,” Workshop
at the Free & Natural Poetry Faire, November 2017, Brooklyn, NY
”Lit Crawl,” Reading
at the Texas Book Festival, November 2017, Austin, TX
“Mythic Poetry: A Hero’s Journey / a Fool’s Quest,” Workshop
at the Boldface Write-a-Thon, November 2017, Houston, TX
”P O E T I N G: New York,” Reading
at Mockingbird, October 2017, New York City, NY
“The Personal Essay: Complicating the ‘Facts,’” Workshop
at Inprint, Fall 2017, Houston, TX
”Place & Poetry,” Workshop
at Writers in the Schools Fall Conference, September 2017, Houston, TX
"Public Poetry's, Library Reading Series," Reading
at Brazos Books, September 2017, Houston, TX
"The Personal Essay: Heritage, Place and the Multiple Spaces of Memories," Workshop
at Inprint, Spring 2017, Houston, TX
"Sexual Violence and the Poem as a Formal Body," Panel Discussion
at AWP 2017, Washington, D.C.
”Poetry and Prose,” Reading
at University of Houston, September 2016, Houston, TX
"Gender Violence Language Showdown: An Interactive Workshop on Words, Abuse & Amelioration," Workshop
at Point Park University, May 2016, Pittsburgh, PA
"If We Burn, You Burn with Us: Reading, Seeing, Teaching and Re-Learning Mockingjay in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter," Paper Presentation
at the PAMLA Conference 2015, Portland, OR
"Automystifistical Plaice: A Ballet Mecanique Spread-Spectrum Ecstasy, with voices by John Matthias," Performance
at the Wexner Center for the Arts, September 2015, Columbus, OH
Excerpts from "Eight Ball," a Novel in Progress, Reading
at the OSU EGO "Broken Narratives" Conference 2014, Columbus, OH
Excerpts from "Mythic City," a Poem Cycle, Reading
at the MMLA "Popular Culture - The Lives of Cities" Conference 2014, Detroit, MI
