Patrick Donnelly
Patrick Donnelly is the author of THE CHARGE (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press), about which Gregory Orr wrote "...everything he writes is suffused with tenderness and intelligence, lucidity and courage," and Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012). He is a current Associate Editor of Poetry International, a former Associate Editor (1999 – 2009) at Four Way Books, and Director of the Advanced Seminar at The Frost Place. Donnelly has taught creative writing and public speaking at Colby College, the Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Program, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and elsewhere. His poems have been featured on Poetry Daily in 2002 and 2003, on Verse Daily in 2003, and have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Slate, as well as anthologized in the Four Way Reader #2, The Book of Irish American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present, and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Donnelly is a 2008 recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a member of the Massachusetts Poetry Outreach Project Advisory Board. From the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, he received the Richard Soref Scholarship in Poetry in 2003 and the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry in 2004, and grants from the PEN Fund for Writers in 2000 and 2001.First posted on November 29, 2006 5:22 AM
- Patrick Donnelly Full Reading at UMaine Farmington
- Patrick Donnelly at UMaine Farmington, November 15, 2007
- Low Door (live)
- Note to the New Owner (live)
- After a Move (live)
- Fountain of Blood (live)
- Shade Garden (live)
- Prayer After Refusing to Pray (live)
- Consummatum Est (live)
- The Sign at Window One (live)
- Prayer at the Gym (live)
- Angel’s Trumpet (live)
- Apologia pro Vita Sua (live)
- Patrick Donnelly introduces his Japanese translations
- Written on a Folded Piece of Paper during a Snowfall as the Author Was about to Enter the Priesthood (live)
- On the Surprising Appearance of a Strange Priest in the Author's Dream during a Time of Arduous Practice (live)
- Sent to Her Teacher Shôkû Shônin (live)
- it hurts/that what I mistook (live)
- Sent to Ise no Tayû on the Fifteenth of the Second Month in the Middle of the Night and An Answer (live)
- Sent with Her Father's Fan which the Empress Dowager Found when She Moved to the Palace at Higashi Sanjô (live)
- On the Metaphor from the Yuima-kyo Which Says “This Body Is Like a Banana Tree” (live)
- The Gate to Everywhere (live)
- The Author’s Breathing Stopped Suddenly (live)
- Discouraged by Illness, Unsure How It Would Turn Out (live)
- Patrick Donnelly introduces the last sequence of poems
- the debt/I owe the breasts (live)
- Invocation (live)
- Received Wisdom (live)
- My Mother Tries to Quit (live)
- Called Back (live)
- The Truth about the Way and the Life (live)
- Oxygen Catastrophe (live)
- Cradle-Song (live)
- The Mother's Ashes Reply (live)
- Homeland (live)
- Patrick Donnelly audience Q&A at UMaine Farmington
- Prayer at the Opera
- Pool
- White Shirt
- The Sign at Window One
- Harm Reduction
- Conjurement
- Hard Gardens
- Last Watch
- Projection
- Hidden Spring
- Patrick Donnelly Q&A on a poem he wishes he'd written
- Patrick Donnelly Q&A on poetry's role in his life
- Patrick Donnelly Q&A on poetry's role in his life 2
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