Things We Take Things We Let Go

<p>This latest poetry collection from award-winning poet Catherine Marenghi is a meditation on the things we carry with us through life-both physical and emotional cargo-and the things we inevitably leave behind during times of transition and change. Her life-altering move from Massachusetts to Mexico infuses this text with joy humor inspiration longing and love.</p><p></p><p>Catherine Marenghi is an award-winning poet memoirist and novelist. Her poetry books include <em>Unfurled: Love Poem</em>s (2023) of which Sandra Cisneros said Here is poetry written from the exquisite perspective of a woman of a certain age; <em>Breaking Bread: Poems</em> (2020) a book about family love and the endless longing for home; and now this latest collection <em>Things We Take Things We Let Go.</em></p><p></p><p>Among her poetry awards she received first-place honors in separate poetry contests judged by acclaimed poets Richard Blanco and Jennifer Clement. Her poems also twice received first-place honors from the Academy of American Poets university poetry prize program and received a Yeats Poetry Prize honorable mention. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.</p>