If I have my way, my death will come as a thunderclap, or the slap of a gruff wind that whips out of nowhere. In the snap of a twig, I’ll be gone. I who once feathered the summer shade of a quiet street, shook the rain from my leaves like a wet […]
Catherine Marenghi
A native of Massachusetts, the granddaughter of Italian immigrants, Catherine Marenghi is an award-winning poet and memoirist. Her poetry has appeared in Crossroads, Solamente en San Miguel, Italian Americana, Mobius, and other journals. She is the author of Glad Farm: A Memoir (2016), an acclaimed story of poverty, loss and resilience, and the power of a house to shape our destiny. She earned an M.A., B.A. summa cum laude in English from Tufts University, where she studied poetry under Denise Levertov, X.J. Kennedy, and others. She divides her time between Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.