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Poetry

Poet's Beginning...

Cate McNider began writing poetry consistently, in response to someone asking her a question, a year after arriving in NYC, 1985. This simple inquiry opened another channel of creativity, in addition to her previous years of formally studying acting and modern dance in London, UK.


Poetry only required a pen and paper....


Reading at Elizabeth Street Garden

In collaboration with McNally Jackson Books, Elizabeth Street Garden has a summer music and poetry series. This theme was ‘myth’. 

August 15, 2021

"Fierce Intent", oil on canvas, 16x20

Poetry Collection

Separation and Return - (available here only)

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Back Cover: "Cate McNider's Separation and Return is a collection of missives from the buried self in search of expression and communication to the conscious mind. These are poetic explorations, celebrations, and observations: of nature, love, justice, and the mysteries that surround, confound, and inform the soul; the product of a series of relationships beginning in her early twenties, which, she says, "sparked my curiosity for exploring my gifts. Childhood events created a buried treasure, which the arts helped me to explore, "specifically, "[the] contents and whereabouts of my body/mind/soul." In her words, the poetic effusions contained within these pages "cover a range of experience, from the separation of myself from myself in the process of healing and observations along the way, then returned to myself whole and healthy. The axiom 'healer heal thyself' applied to me long before I knew what it entailed." 

Here is a unique poetic voice that is straightforward in tone, emotionally honest in expression, perceptive, unsentimental, and very powerful. " -- 2010 Vantage Press


Cover: 'Fierce Intent', oil on canvas, 20x24", Cate McNider, 1995


Samples from Separation and Return (81 pages):


Alias


We arrive an alias. 

We must take it upon ourselves

to create the original.


2001



Dwellers Within


Meandering in a low, dense walk

I forgot to dress, wounds open.

Slipped inside a sleeve,

slipped inside a sleeve, 

taking refuge in epithelium.


Forgetting what it was

that drove me there, drove me

to pierce the inner wall of membrane, 

listen to retinaculum hum like a shaker,

decifer the hieroglyphs of bone

and sit     when I wanted nothing

but to Get     Out!


Crack me open! 

My body is ever so tender

when the dwellers within emerge

to paint their canvases.


1996

"Fierce Intent", oil on canvas, 16x20

Reading- Separation and Return

Reading of Separation and Return at Mulberry St. Library, NYC, 2011

Poems Published in Journals and Reviews

Sample: Submissions Published

Published Winter 2013,

 Solitary Plover.com



The End of War


The end of war is like the beginning of war,


cherry trees blossom

                   

                      then drop their petals,

         another is soon to follow,


it takes the breath away.


2012


Photo by Michael Mráz on Unsplash

Photo by Michael Mráz on Unsplash

Reviews: Sample

Separation and Return

"In Separation and Return, Cate NcNider's recent book of poetry, the author creates an indelible, in-depth work, rich with metaphor and imagery, empowered with feeling tone and straight talk, and delicate with a vulnerability that touches tender places, permeating soul and presence.

Share in the journey of a poet's diverse life path as artist, naturalist, sensory being, daughter, great-niece, pet lover and insightful human. As we read through this important coming-of-age offering, we travel alongside a heart that is winding through vulnerability-strength, anger-sadness-acceptance, fear-courage, and loss-release to find home."  -Beth Goren


Currents, a bi-annual publication of Body-Mind Centering Association, 2011 (photo:Eliezer Parrilla)

Currents, a bi-annual publication of Body-Mind Centering Association, 2011 (photo:Eliezer Parrilla)

Help me to produce the audiobook

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The audiobook is a separate add on, aside from the print copy and ebook which is included in the contract. I want  to record it myself with the help of a sound engineer friend. 

Isn't it better when the author reads their work?!

Thank you for your contribution to helping make thoughtful poetry available to the visually impaired and those who just like to hear it read aloud!!

Recent Poetic Samples - 2nd Collection in process

2018 -2020

Connection


"Everything is for you, by you",

is what I heard, in my inner ear.

Messages from the Self to the self

if heard, can give you a real security, 

if you listen. 


It is the only voice that is true, 

with nothing to hide, with no agenda, 

with no payment. It just is.

If you quiet the mind, it is always

there --- you must let dissolve what

covers it.


5/28/2020





Man - In Cooperation


Man is Man.

He sells out his brother,

no matter the color or class.

His victim isn't special - 

it's just what he does.

You may not remember, but 

last time, you were the one

doing the betraying.

Now, you get to experience

the other side of the equation.



8/15/19






The Point 


The art is not the object.

The making of the art,

is not the object.

Even the process of making

the art is not the object.

It is what the art is 

c o m m u n i c a t i n g

that is the point, from

where it comes, that is 

the object.

The painting itself has

no value, does it

make you feel?

Look to the source for 

the message, it’s in the 

source.

It is a message to itself,

it gives of itself to itself.

The experience is the art.

Understanding where it

comes from is the art.

Allowing it is the art.

Accepting it is the art.

Knowledge of this, is

my artistry.


11/26/18


 

Experience


Look into what you can’t see,

feel what you can’t touch, 

taste what you can’t smell,

it’s now.


2/3/19

 


Times Around the Sun


I am not forgotten, to myself.

I remember many knee scrapes, 

rejections and ignore-ances of others

as I look upon the healed scars.

It is only I, that recognize the markers along 

my journey and more importantly: 

the undoing and undressing of the mask 

and inner tensions built, in order to survive. 


Now, going forward, it is the absence of it

that allows naked feelings to spontaneously 

announce themselves, dance within my being, 

whispering the whys of lessons my Self

taught me, and that revealing the original nature 

of my Self, is the way home.


8/6/2019

"Truth 2", charcoal on paper, 12x9, 2018

"Truth 2", charcoal on paper, 12x9, 2018

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