Patrick Donnelly (born September 25, 1956 in
Tucson, Arizona
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) is an American poet. He is the author of four poetry collections, ''The Charge'' (Ausable Press, 2003, which in 2009 became part of
Copper Canyon Press
Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington.
Copper Canyon Press publishes new collections of poetry by both popu ...
) ''Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin'' (
Four Way Books
Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, New York, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well ...
, 2012), ''Jesus Said'' (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), and ''Little-Known Operas'' (Four Way Books, 2019). His poems have appeared in many journals, including ''The American Poetry Review'', ''The Yale Review'', ''The Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''The Massachusetts Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Hayden's Ferry Review'', and ''Slate'', and in anthologies including ''The Book of Irish American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present'' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), and ''From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great'' (Persea Press, 2009).
Though not of any specific religion, his poetry often takes on subjects such as erotic love or the AIDS epidemic in religious terms. Writing in ''88: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry'', Lee Rossi said of Donnelly's work: "Donnelly's greatest strength may be his control of the pitch and inflection of his poems. We see it not just in the let's-go-to-bed poems, but also in the poems of suffering and loss...The poet is not just some rueful roué, but something more complicated and human. Caught between God and God's creation, he is the anchorite who never completely turns his back on this world, the angelic sybarite who never quite quits his conversation with God."
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Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place
The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home on Ridge Road in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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in Franconia, New Hampshire, and will be teaching for the Seminar in August, 2021. /sup>He is currently an associate editor of ''Poetry International'' and a contributing editor of ''Trans-Portal'', and from 1999 to 2009 he was an associate editor at Four Way Books. He received his MFA from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and has taught at Smith College, Colby College, the Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Program, and Lynchburg College. Donnelly's awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award.
With his spouse Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly translated classical Japanese poems in ''The Wind from Vulture Peak: the Buddhification of Japanese'' Waka ''in the Heian Period'' (Cornell East Asia Series, 2012). The ''Vulture Peak'' translations were awarded the 2015-2016 , from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University. Donnelly's translations with Miller have appeared in many journals, including ''Bateau'', ''Circumference'', ''eXchanges'', ''Inquiring Mind'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''New Plains Review'', and ''Poetry International''. /sup>
Donnelly was the 2015 – 2017 Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.
Works
* ''The Charge''. Ausable Press (since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). 2003.
* ''Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin''. Four Way Books. 2012.
* ''Jesus Said''. Orison Books. 2017.
* ''Little-Known Operas''. Four Way Books. 2019.
References
Ploughshares > Authors & Articles
Copper Canyon Press > Author Page
External links
Orison Books
U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award
Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council
Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award
* ttp://www.northamptonartscouncil.org/p/poet-laureate.html 2015 – 2017 Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts
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Translations > Inquiring Mind > Patrick Donnelly and Stephen D. Miller
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1956 births
Living people
Writers from Tucson, Arizona
American male poets
American gay writers
American LGBT poets
Poets from Arizona
Municipal Poets Laureate in the United States
Gay poets