{"id":1028,"date":"2019-01-02T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:31:45","slug":"caitlyn-curran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/caitlyn-curran\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 83: Caitlyn Curran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Caitlyn Curran<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Caitlyn Curran is a third-year MFA candidate and English instructor at the University of Idaho. She serves as the current Marketing Editor for the literary journal Fugue. Her recent work can be found in: The American Journal of Poetry, Basalt, Hubbub, Miramar, PANK, Raleigh Review, Queen Mob\u2019s Tea House, Willow Springs and elsewhere. She was a 2018 Centrum Fellow at the Port Townsend Writers Conference.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Notes on \u201cDuck Duck Goose\u201d and \u201cFish Tank\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuck Duck Goose\u201d actually arose from a creative nonfiction piece I was writing at the time. When I sat down to write the poem, I was already concerned with repetition as a way to enact the trickiness of memory. I noticed after a few stanzas that this poem wanted to be a villanelle. \u201cDuck Duck Goose\u201d is fairly true to the villanelle form, besides omitting a few lines and using slant rhyme, which again I did to enact the sense of hazy memory. \u201cFish Tank\u201d went through a few phases of revision\u2014 at first it concerned two separate events, but then I was rightly advised to focus on the fish tank and go ahead and write another poem for the lines I ended up cutting. Workshops are good for something, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music, Food, Booze, Tattoos, Kittens, etc.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I have a very energetic one-year-old blue nose pitbull named Leila, so most afternoons you\u2019ll find me walking with her. During our daily 3-mile walk, I listen to podcasts. I\u2019m a voracious listener of podcasts\u2014 be they true crime (Last Podcast on the Left, My Favorite Murder, Dr. Death, Teachers Pet, etc.) or news (anything from NPR, Abe Lincoln\u2019s Top Hat) or storytelling (The Moth, Invisibilia, Lore) or just people reading riddles. In the evenings, it\u2019s Malbec from a box or bust while I work on my poetry manuscript and try to stop Leila from chasing my cat, Penny. I spend a lot of time grading papers, too, but no one wants to hear about that.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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