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Catamaran Literary Reader is a quarterly magazine publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and fine art. View our website at www.catamaranliteraryreader.com
Catamaran is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with public charity status. Each quarterly issue features at least ten poets, five fiction authors, and five creative nonfiction authors along with work from at least 10 different visual artists and photographers. Catamaran is primarily a print publication. We also hold public events to celebrate the release of each issue and to connect the public with artists and writers featured in our pages.
04/21/2026
It was great to celebrate Floodchaser and Catamaran at the Los Angeles Festival of Books!
04/20/2026
Join us Thursday at 5:30-6:30PM Pacific for a conversation and reading to celebrate the 2025 winner of our Poetry Prize for West Coast poets, Aaron Hand. Aaron will be joined by poet Kathy Fagan for a discussion and poetry reading from Floodchaser. Register to attend,and you will receive an email with a link to join the event, as well as a reminder the day before.
Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/floodchaserlaunch
Thursday April 23rd, 5:30-6:30PM
04/15/2026
🌸 Join Us for Spring Poetry Events in LA & Online! We'll be celebrating the Catamaran Poetry Prize at the Art of Elysium in Los Angeles with poetry readings on April 18th, and virtually on April 23rd. Register for the virtual reading here: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/floodchaserlaunch
03/27/2026
We had a terrific launch event at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. Very inspiring readings!
Thanks to a generous donation from Scott Monett, Catamaran has switched from an overseas printer to Publication Printers Corp. based out of Denver, Colorado! We looked forward to this continued collaboration with a US-based press.
03/26/2026
Catamaran will be at the LA Times Festival of Books April 18-19! Come visit us at Booth #923 in the Black Zone. Peruse old and new issues of Catamaran and get a signed copy of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize winner, Floodchaser by Aaron Tyler Hand.
🗓️ Book signings at booth #923 with Aaron Hand :
---Saturday at 10:30AM
---Sunday at 2:00PM
🗓️ Saturday, April 18th at 7PM, Poetry Reading to Celebrate Aaron Tyler Hand
📍The Art of Elysium, 3278 Wilshire Blvd., PH, Los Angeles The Art of Elysium
03/17/2026
Next Tuesday! Join us for the special Fashion Issue launch celebration on March 24th at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History!
--5:30-6:00 - Experience the museum
--6:00-6:30 - Reception in the garden
--6:30-7:30 - Readings in the atrium
Readings by: Eliza Blackorby, Ana Maria Carbonel, Seán Carlson , Kaleikaumaka Carrillo, Cathleen Sonoda Cohen, Ian Hamilton, Connie Hills, Charles Hood, Maria Olujic, Patrice Vecchione, Brian Wedlake.
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
705 Front Street Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
03/11/2026
We hope you will join us for the special Fashion Issue launch event on Tuesday, March 24th at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History!
--5:30-6:00 - Experience the museum
--6:00-6:30 - Reception in the garden
--6:30-7:30 - Readings in the atrium
Readings by: Eliza Blackorby, Ana Maria Carbonell, Sean Carlson, Kaleikaumaka Carrillo, Cathleen Sonoda Cohen, Ian Hamilton, Connie Hills, Charles Hood, Maria Olujic, Patrice Vecchione, Brian Wedlake.
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
705 Front Street Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
03/06/2026
Announcing Catamaran's special Fashion Issue, and launch event!
The poetry book Floodchaser, by Aaron Taylor Hand, winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize, is now available for preorder!
Catamaran will be present at the Los Angeles Festival of Books. Stop by Booth #923 to check out new and old editions of Catamaran!
Checkout our latest newsletter for more details. https://mailchi.mp/catamaranliteraryreader.com/fashion-issue-and-launch
02/22/2026
Aaron Tyler Hand’s poetry collection Floodchaser is now available for pre-order! Aaron was the winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The book was selected by the contest judge, National Book Award-winning poet Mary Szybist.
🌊 Floodchaser will ship on April 3rd, 2026, so pre-order your copy now!
https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/subscribe-donate/floodchaser
Floodchaser reinhabits Noah’s biblical story with surprising urgency and power. It makes mythical and familial inheritances feel palpable but not unbreakable. Wonderfully restless in its formal inventiveness, it breaks and remakes patterns, letting them swirl into rhythms that are unpredictably alive. This is a book about blistering grief and bewilderment, but it is also about resurrection, the kind that is possible once we face the ways in which the “Past and Present [hold] hands around each other’s throat.” Aaron Tyler Hand’s lyrics are emotionally bracing, deeply engaged with the possibilities and reach of the human voice. —Mary Szybist
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