Patrick Donnelly (poet)
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The Publishing Triangle Award for Gay Male Poetry (2004 finalist); U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award; 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature |
Patrick Donnelly (born September 25, 1956 in Tucson, Arizona) 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) Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 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."[1]
Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at
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
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
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
- 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature
- 2015 – 2017 Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts
- Poem > American Poetry Review > Read the Signs
- Poem > American Poetry Review > Prayer at the Gym
- Poem > American Poetry Review > Cradle-Song
- Poem > Barrow Street > After a Move
- Translations > Inquiring Mind > Patrick Donnelly and Stephen D. Miller
- Translations > Mead > Patrick Donnelly and Stephen D. Miller[permanent dead link]
- Translations > Cha: an Asian Literary Journal > Patrick Donnelly and Stephen D. Miller
- From the Fishouse > audio archive > Patrick Donnelly