Patrick Donnelly
Patrick Donnelly's collection of poems is The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003), about which Gregory Orr wrote "...everything he writes is suffused with tenderness and intelligence, lucidity and courage." Donnelly is an Associate Editor at Four Way Books, and has taught writing at Smith College, the New School University, Clark University, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He was Thornton writer-in-residence at Lynchburg College for Spring, 2006. His poems have been featured on Poetry Daily in 2002 and 2003, on Verse Daily in 2003; have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Rattapallax, The Marlboro Review, and have been anthologized in the Four Way Reader #2, The Book of Irish American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present, and elsewhere. From the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, he received a scholarship in 2003 and a fellowship in 2004, and grants from the PEN Fund for Writers in 2000 and 2001. His second collection, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. He lives in Western Massachusetts.Other places to find Patrick Donnelly and his work online:
- The Charge on Amazon.com
- The Drunken Boat
- Japanese translations with Stephen Miller
- Reading between A & B
- Gratefulness.org
- Ploughshares
- American Poetry Review
- Romantic Circles (Keats recording and essay)
- Four Way Books
- PENNsound (reading at Kelly Writers House, 2/10/04)
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
- Patrick Donnelly