Patrick Rosal: A Reading and Conversation
Patrick Rosal is the author of The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems, listed among The Boston Globe’s best books of the year and named winner of the William Carlos Williams Book Award. His 2016 collection Brooklyn Antediluvian won the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize. He is a self-taught visual artist and musician and has composed art song for traditional and non-traditional instrumentation. He has made hundreds of appearances in Europe, Africa, Asia, and throughout the Americas at venues that include Lincoln Center, NJPAC, and historic Filipino Community Hall in Delano. He penned the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of Jessica Hagedorn’s seminal novel Dogeaters and has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Research Scholar program, NJSCA, and the Civitella Ranieri Residency. He is the inaugural Campus Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Camden and has served as Interim Director of the MFA Program, where he is a Distinguished Professor. He is currently writing a book of prayers in addition to a meditation on the contemporary sacred.