Aftermath

by Catherine Broadwall

129 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 5, 2026

About the author

Catherine Broadwall is the author of Aftermath (Girl Noise Press, 2026) and Water Spell (Cornerstone Press, 2025) and, under her previous name Catherine Kyle, Fulgurite (Cornerstone Press, 2023), Shelter in Place (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and other collections. Her writing has appeared in Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. She was the winner of the 2023 Paula Svonkin Creative Arts Award and the 2020 COG Poetry Award, as well as a finalist for the poetry categories of the 2021 Mississippi Review Prize and 2021 Pinch Literary Awards.

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Reviews

[Shilo · Rating 5 out of 5]

"If I keep trying / to make myself so palatable, I might risk suppressing / any flavor at all. All the things that make me good, // someone will object to. A weed is a weed / unless it's placed in a bouquet.