Cate Lycurgus is the author of Seacliff (Bull City Press, 2025). Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2025, Ploughshares, Orion, and elsewhere. Cate lives in San Jose, California, where she interviews for 32 Poems and teaches. You can find her at www.catelycurgus.com or on Instagram @catelycurgus.
Forgive yourself. If it’s hard, start small: throwaway thing you said in passing that’s kept you sheet-thrashing all night. Stack of coupons you let expire; waves uncaught when you came in early despite offshore wind.
