Two Poems
by Mary Catherine Harper
Thirteen Versions of the Big Bang
Ghosts I Have Known
Mary Catherine Harper, a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award winner, was the Ohio Arts Council poetry resident at the Fine Arts Work Center of Provincetown, MA, for June-August 2019. She organizes the yearly SwampFire Retreat (swampfire.org) for artists and writers at 4 Corners Gallery in Angola, Indiana, and manages the group’s Facebook page. She won the 2018 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, has a published chapbook, Some Gods Don’t Need Saints, and her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including The Comstock Review, Cold Mountain Review, Pudding Magazine, MidAmerica, Print-Oriented Bastards, and The Offbeat. See marycatherineharper.org for more information.