Patrick Rosal is a Filipino American poet and essayist.

Writing

Rosal is the author of four books of poetry: ''Brooklyn Antediluvian'', ''Boneshepherds'', ''My American Kundiman'', and ''Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive'', all from Persea Books. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including ''

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'', '' Tin House'', ''Drunken Boat'', ''Poetry'', ''New England Review'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''Harvard Review'', ''Grantland'', ''Brevity'', ''Breakbeat Poets'', and ''The Best American Poetry''. He is co-founding editor of Some ''Call It Ballin’'', a literary sports magazine.

Career

Rosal received his MFA in creative writing from

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...

. In 2009, he was awarded a

Fulbright Fellowship The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

to the Philippines. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Texas, Austin, Bloomfield College, and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Rutgers University-Camden.

Awards

* 2007 - Global Filipino Literary Award for ''My American Kundiman'' * 2008 - Association for Asian American Studies Poetry/Prose Award for ''My American Kundiman'' * 2011 - National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlight for ''Boneshepherds'' * 2017 -

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* 2017 -

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

for ''Brooklyn Antediluvian'' * 2017 - Finalist for the

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the ...

for ''Brooklyn Antediluvian'' * 2018 - National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship * 2022 - William Carlos Williams Award

Bibliography

Books

* ''Brooklyn Antediluvian'' (Persea Books, 2016) , * ''Boneshepherds'' (Persea Books, 2011) , * ''My American Kundiman'' (Persea Books, 2006) , * ''Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive'' (Persea Books, 2003) , * ''The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems'' (Persea Books, 2021) ,

References

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