Patricia Fargnoli (November 16, 1937 – February 18, 2021) was an American

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and

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. She was the New Hampshire Poet Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009.

Biography

Fargnoli was an alumna of

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, Hartford College for Women, and the

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School of Social Work. Fargnoli's books of

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include ''Necessary Light'' (

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Press, 1999), winner of the May Swenson Book Award; ''Lives of Others'' (

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, 2001); ''Small Songs of Pain'' (

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, 2003); ''Duties of the Spirit'' (Tupelo Press, 2005) which won the Jane Kenyon Literary Award for Outstanding Poetry by a New Hampshire poet; and, most recently, ''Then, Something'' (also from Tupelo Press, 2009), which won the 2009 Foreword Review Best of the Year Silver Award in Poetry. She was the recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. Her poems appeared in magazines and literary journals including ''

Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

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'', and ''Nimrod''. She served as an Associate Editor of ''The Worcester Review,'' and taught at

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, the NH Institute of Art and in the Lifelong Learning Program at

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. A resident of Walpole,

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, she was a member of the New Hampshire Arts Council Touring Roster and of the New Hampshire Writers' Project at

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. She had three children: Kenneth, Michael, and Diana; and four grandchildren: Alycia, Joseph Fargnoli, Joshua, and Jessica.

References

Sources

Interview: ''Emprise Review'' > ''Dormeuse in Alice in Wonderland: Dialogue with Fiona Sze-Lorrain/Greta Aart'' > November 2008

External links

Video: New Hampshire Public Television > NH Poet Laureate: Patricia Fargnoli > Aired Wednesday, Feb 22, 2006

''Poets & Writers'' Directory of Writers > Patricia Fargnoli

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080821115547/http://www.nhwritersproject.org/newfiles/KearsargePoets.html NH Writers' Project - Kearsarge Festival Poets & Presenters
Review: ''Web Del Sol Review of Books'' > ''A Note on Patricia Fargnoli's Work'' > by Ilya Kaminsky

Tupelo Press > Author Page > Patricia Fargnoli

"The Undeniable Pressure of Existence" featured on The Writer's Almanac
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