Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.
Cate MarvinNew York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.
Cate MarvinPlace is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.
Cate MarvinI have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.
Cate Marvin