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Patrick Rosal

Poet, Author & Campus Co-director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden

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Patrick Rosal Biography

Patrick Rosal is the author of five full-length poetry collections including "The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems," winner of the William Carlos Williams Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He currently serves as Campus Co-director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden, where he coordinates the programming series Occasions for Gathering and Quilting Water, a five-year public art project collecting interviews about water from around the world. He is also Professor of English teaching courses on poetry, performance, improvisation, collaboration, and community art. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Research Scholar program. and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. Residencies include Civitella Ranieri, a Lannan Residency in Marfa, TX, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. He is co-founding editor of Some Call It Ballin’, a literary sports magazine.

"Brooklyn Antediluvian" (2016) won the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry. Previously, "Boneshepherds" (2011) was named a small press highlight by the National Book Critics Circle and a notable book by the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of "My American Kundiman" (2006), and "Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive" (2003). His collections have also been honored with the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, Global Filipino Literary Award and the Asian American Writers Workshop Members' Choice Award. With Cherita Harrell, Jacob Camacho, and his wife Mary Rose Go, he released copies of Atang, an experimental, traveling altar and self-published book object under the ad hoc moniker of Quili Quili Power Projects. Atang was distributed in 2021 on the quincentenary of the defeat of Magellan by Lapu Lapu in 1521. Quili Quili Power is a conceptual extension of the ad hoc, mostly invisible Institite for the Study for Contemporary Collaborative Imagining (aka ICCII), which was launched in 2017 with the Microscope Fellowship, which distributed free 7x microscopes around America.

He has received teaching appointments at Princeton University, Penn State Altoona, Centre College, the University of Texas, Austin, Drew University's Low-Residency MFA program and Sarah Lawrence College. He taught creative writing for several years at Bloomfield College where he previously earned his B.A. and twice has served on the faculty of Kundiman’s Summer Retreat for Asian American Poets. In addition to conducting workshops in Alabama prisons through Auburn University, he has taught high school workshops through the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Sarah Lawrence College's Summer Writing Conference for High School Students, Urban Word NYC, and the Volume workshops in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including The New York Times, Tin House, Drunken Boat, Poetry, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Grantland, Brevity, Breakbeat Poets, and The Best American Poetry. His work has been recognized by the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Arts and Letters Prize, Best of the Net among others. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken.

His poems and voiceovers were included in the Argentine feature-length film Anhua: Amanecer which screened at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. He has also appeared on the Leonard Lopate Show and the BBC Radio's World Today.

His invited readings and performances include several appearances at the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Stadler Center for Poetry, WordFest in Asheville, the poetry reading series at Georgia Tech, Poetry @ MIT, the Carr Reading Series at the University of Illinois, the Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, Sarah Lawrence College, where he earned his MFA, and hundreds of other venues that span the United States, London, Buenos Aires, South Africa, Senegal, Italy, Spain, Greece, Nicaragua, and the Philippines.

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Patrick Rosal Videos

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    Patrick Rosal reading "Sundiata Elegy"
    Patrick Rosal winner of the 2022 William Carlos Williams Award for his book The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems, selected by Erika Meitner.
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Patrick Rosal Books

  • The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems
    The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems
  • Brooklyn Antediluvian: Poems
    Brooklyn Antediluvian: Poems
  • Boneshepherds: Poems
    Boneshepherds: Poems
  • My American Kundiman
    My American Kundiman
  • Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive: Poems
    Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive: Poems

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