The Monkey Whose Job It Used to Be to Sit on Miss
Peach’s Shoulder Takes Up Olde Timely Music
Catie Rosemurgy’s second poetry collection, The Stranger Manual, is forthcoming in January 2010 from Graywolf Press. Her first collection, My Favorite Apocalypse, was published by Graywolf Press in 2001. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for Emerging Female Writers. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Young American Poets and Poetry 30, a collection of work by American poets in their thirties. She teaches at the College of New Jersey. 
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