Catherine Chandler was born in New York City and raised in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Educated at Wilkes and McGill Universities, she currently lectures in Spanish at the Department of Translation Studies at McGill University in Montreal. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Catherine's poems and translations have been published or are forthcoming in numerous journals, magazines, anthologies and websites in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, including The Lyric, The Barefoot Muse, The Raintown Review, The Book of Hopes and Dreams, Loch Raven Review, The HyperTexts, Blue Unicorn, Candelabrum, Umbrella, Möbius, Modern Haiku, First Things, Iambs and Trochees, Texas Poetry Journal, Harp-Strings Poetry Journal, Mezzo Cammin, Lives, Lucid Rhythms, and others.

    Of Diminished Things

                  "The question that he frames in all but words
                  Is what to make of a diminished thing."
                                          —Robert Frost, "The Ovenbird"

	Each morning at exactly nine o'clock, our fellowship of grizzle-headed men meets at McDonald's, métro Frontenac. We take our customary seats, and then, despite the posted warning, "PAS DE FLÂNAGE," drink discount coffee for an hour or two, surrounded by a motley entourage of students, filles, families – and you, who snicker at our mild grandiloquence; who live, for now, in Never Never Land; who think life's written in the present tense; who understandably can't understand our joie de vivre, or grant that it's no crime to squander what one's left of change and time.

Contemporary Poetry With An Eye Towards Resistance


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