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Patricia Lockwood

{{Short description|American poet and author (born 1982)}}

{{Use American English|date=May 2024}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}}

{{For|the politician|Patricia A. Lockwood}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Patricia Lockwood

| image = Patricia Lockwood 2013 cropped edit.jpg

| alt = A caucasian woman with short hair lecturing at a podium

| caption = Lockwood in 2014

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|04|27}}

| birth_place = Fort Wayne, Indiana U.S.

| occupation = Writer

| language = English

| nationality = American

| education =

| notableworks = "Rape Joke", Priestdaddy, No One Is Talking About This

| awards = Thurber Prize for American Humor (2018)
Dylan Thomas Prize (2022)

| period = 2004–present

}}

Patricia Lockwood (born April 27, 1982) is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Beginning a career in poetry, her collections include Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, a 2014 New York Times Notable Book. Later prose works received more exposure and notoriety. She is a multiple award winner: her 2017 memoir Priestdaddy won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and her 2021 debut novel, No One Is Talking About This, won the Dylan Thomas Prize. In addition to her writing activities, she has been a contributing editor for the London Review of Books since 2019.

She is notable for working across a variety of genres. "Your work can flow into the shape that people make for you," she told Slate in an interview in 2020. "Or you can try to break that shape."{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/culture/2020/10/maggie-smith-good-bones-keep-moving-poetry-self-help.html|title=You Could Make This Place Beautiful|last=Kois|first=Dan|date=October 6, 2020|website=Slate|language=en|access-date=2020-10-06}} In 2022, she received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for her contributions to the field of experimental writing.{{Cite web|url=https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2022-literature-award-winners/|title=2022 Literature Award Winners|last=Fedor|first=Ashley|date=March 11, 2022|website=American Academy of Arts and Letters|language=en|access-date=2022-03-13}}

Lockwood is the only writer with both fiction and nonfiction works selected as the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times. At four years, she also holds the record for the shortest span between repeat appearances on the list.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/books/review/best-books-2021.html|title=The 10 Best Books of 2021|date=December 20, 2021|website=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2021-12-20}}

Kirkus Reviews has called her "our guide to moving beyond thinking of the internet as a thing apart from real lives and real art," and Garden & Gun: "goddess of the avant-garde."{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/patricia-lockwood/no-one-is-talking-about-this|title=No One Is Talking About This|date=November 30, 2020|website=Kirkus Reviews|language=en|access-date=2020-11-30}}

Early life

Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/poet-on-the-edge/521412/|title=Poet on the Edge|last=Parker|first=James|date=May 2017|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en-US}} She has four siblings.[GATTI, T. In the name of the father. New Statesman. 146, 5368, 16-17, May 26, 2017.] {{ISSN|1364-7431}} Her father Greg Lockwood found religion while serving as a seaman on a nuclear submarine in the Cold War. His conversion first led him to the Lutheran Church, then to its ministry, and finally to Roman Catholicism.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/27/priestdaddy-by-patricia-lockwood-review|title=Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood review – a dazzling comic memoir|last=Laity|first=Paul|date=2017-04-27|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} In 1984, he asked ordination as a married Catholic priest from then St. Louis Archbishop John L. May under a special pastoral provision issued by Pope John Paul II in 1980. Lockwood therefore had the rare experience of growing up in a Catholic rectory, as part of a traditional American nuclear family, but with a priest as a father.{{Cite web|url= http://catholickey.org/2011/08/11/unusual-path-leads-father-lockwood-to-k-c/ |title=Unusual path leads Father Lockwood to K.C. |last=Kelly|first= Kevin |date=August 11, 2011|website=The Catholic Key|access-date=2017-05-10}} Lockwood grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and Cincinnati, Ohio,{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/patricia-lockwood-the-poet-laureate-of-twitter-w479691|title=Patricia Lockwood: The Poet Laureate of Twitter |last=Jerkins|first=Morgan|date=May 1, 2017|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=2017-05-10}} attending parochial schools there, but never went to college.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/books/review-priestdaddy-patricia-lockwood.html|title=Patricia Lockwood Is a Priest's Child (Really), but 'From the Devil'|last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=2017-05-03|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-10|issn=0362-4331}} She is a 2000 YoungArts alumnus.{{Cite web |title=Our History {{!}} 40 years for artists |url=https://youngarts.org/history/#decade-2000s |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=YoungArts |language=en-US}}

Career

{{Main|Priestdaddy|No One Is Talking About This|l1 = Priestdaddy|l2 = No One Is Talking About This}}

In 2011, Lockwood joined Twitter and drew attention there for her comedy and poetics, including the ironic "sext" form she originated,{{Cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/patricia-lockwoods-sext-p_n_1228606.html|title=Patricia Lockwood's Sext Poems Will Make You LOL|date=2012-01-24|work=Huffington Post|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en-US}} her association with the Weird Twitter movement,{{Cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/weird-twitter-the-oral-history|title=Weird Twitter: The Oral History|last1=Notopoulos|first1=Katie|date=April 5, 2013|work=BuzzFeed|access-date=2017-05-10|last2=Herrman|first2=John|language=en}} and her devoted following. The Atlantic named Lockwood on its list of "The Best Tweets of All Time", where she was the only author included twice.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/11/best-tweets-all-time-according-us/355586/|title=The Best Tweets of All Time, According to Us|last=Bump|first=Philip|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en-US}} In response to Lockwood's popular tweet ".@parisreview So is paris any good or not," The Paris Review has twice issued reviews of Paris.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/01/09/the-paris-review-reviews-paris/|title=At Last, We Answer Patricia Lockwood's Excellent Tweet|last=Piepenbring|first=Dan|date=January 9, 2014|website=The Paris Review|language=en|access-date=2017-05-10}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/31/paris-reviewed/|title=Paris, Reviewed|last=Piepenbring|first=Dan|date=January 31, 2018|website=The Paris Review|language=en|access-date=2018-01-31}}

In 2012, small press Octopus Books published Lockwood's first poetry collection, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black. The Chicago Tribune praised the work for its "savage intelligence."{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/12/16/poetry-in-neglect/|title=Poetry in neglect|last=Robbins|first=Michael|date=December 16, 2012|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en}} The collection was included in end-of-year lists by The New Yorker{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/best-books-of-2012-p-s|title=Best Books of 2012, P.S.|last=Frere-Jones|first=Sasha|date=2012-12-20|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2017-05-10}} and Pitchfork{{Cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9020-guest-list-best-of-2012/3/|title=Guest List: Best of 2012|last=Brown|first=Austin|date=December 31, 2012|website=Pitchfork|language=en|access-date=2017-05-10|archive-date=2016-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205185519/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9020-guest-list-best-of-2012/3/|url-status=dead}} and became one of the best-selling indie poetry titles of all time.{{Cite news |last=Lichtenstein |first=Jesse |date=2014-05-28 |title=The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/magazine/the-smutty-metaphor-queen-of-lawrence-kansas.html |access-date=2017-05-10 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} Its cover features original artwork by cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt.{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/10/lets-help-patricia-lockwood-get-a-tramp-stamp-shall-we/ |title=Let's Help Patricia Lockwood Get a Tramp Stamp, Shall We?|publisher =Poetry Foundation|website=Harriet: The Blog|date = 24 October 2012}}

In July 2013, general interest website The Awl published Lockwood's prose poem "Rape Joke",{{Cite news|url=http://www.theawl.com/2013/07/rape-joke-patricia-lockwood|title=Rape Joke|last=Lockwood|first=Patricia|date=2013-07-25|work=The Awl|access-date=2017-05-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514014523/https://theawl.com/patricia-lockwood-rape-joke-2e9bd41d80b1|archive-date=2017-05-14|url-status=dead}} which quickly became a viral sensation. The poem develops a personal experience Lockwood had at age 19 into a broader commentary on rape culture. The Guardian wrote that the poem "casually reawakened a generation's interest in poetry."{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2013/jul/26/patricia-lockwood-poem-rape-joke|title=Rape Joke: what is Patricia Lockwood's poem really saying?|last=Groskop|first=Viv|date=2013-07-26|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} The Poetry Foundation declared the poem "world famous."{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/07/patricia-lockwood-rape-joke-poem-is-world-famous/|title=Patricia Lockwood 'Rape Joke' Poem Is World-Famous|last=Foundation|first=Poetry|website=Harriet: The Blog|access-date=2017-05-10}} The poem was selected for the 2014 edition of The Best American Poetry series and won a Pushcart Prize. It has since been translated into more than 20 languages.{{Cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/2015pushcartpriz0000unse|title=Fiction Book Review: The Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2015 Edition by Edited by Bill Henderson, with the Pushcart Prize editors. Pushcart, $19.95 trade paper (650p)|isbn=978-1-888889-73-4|work=Publishers Weekly|access-date=2017-05-10|language=en|url-access=registration}}

In 2014, Penguin Books published Lockwood's second poetry collection, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. The book's cover features more original artwork by Hanawalt. The New York Times critic Dwight Garner praised the book for its "indelible, dreamlike details."{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/books/patricia-lockwoods-motherland-fatherland-homelandsexuals.html|title=Patricia Lockwood's 'Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals'|last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=2014-05-28|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-10|issn=0362-4331}} Stephanie Burt, writing for The New York Times Book Review, lauded it as "at once angrier, and more fun, more attuned to our time and more bizarre, than most poetry can ever get."{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/patricia-lockwoods-motherland-fatherland-homelandsexuals.html|title=Patricia Lockwood's 'Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals'|last=Burt|first=Stephanie|date=2014-07-18|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-10|issn=0362-4331}} The Stranger dubbed Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals "the first true book of poetry to be published in the 21st century."{{Cite web|url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-most-modern-poet/Content?oid=20058730|title=The Most Modern Poet|last=Constant|first=Paul|date=July 9, 2014|website=The Stranger|access-date=2017-05-10}} Rolling Stone included Lockwood and the book on its 2014 Hot List and The New York Times named it a Notable Book.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2014.html|title=100 Notable Books of 2014|last=The New York Times|date=2014-12-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-10|issn=0362-4331}}

Riverhead Books published Lockwood's memoir Priestdaddy in May 2017.{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/sc-priestdaddy-patricia-lockwood-books-0503-20170501-story.html|title=Patricia Lockwood's memoir, 'Priestdaddy,' is smart, funny and irreverent|last=Rooney|first=Kathleen |date=May 1, 2017|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2017-05-08|language=en-US}} The book, called "electric" by The New York Times and "remarkable" by The Washington Post, chronicles her return as an adult to live in her father's rectory and deals with issues of family, belief, belonging, and personhood. In July 2017, Imagine Entertainment announced it had optioned Priestdaddy for development as a limited TV series.{{cite web|last1=Gajewski|first1=Ryan|title=Patricia Lockwood's Memoir 'Priestdaddy' Optioned by Imagine Television|url=http://www.thewrap.com/patricia-lockwood-priestdaddy-imagine-television/|website=The Wrap|date=6 July 2017 |access-date=6 July 2017}} The memoir was named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York, Elle, NPR, Amazon,{{Cite news|url=http://www.bustle.com/p/the-20-best-books-of-2017-according-to-amazons-editors-3251462|title=The 20 Best Books of 2017, According to Amazon's Editors|work=Bustle|access-date=2017-11-08|language=en-US}} Publishers Weekly, among others, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and was awarded the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thurberhouse.org/thurber-prize-winner/|title=2018 THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR WINNER|website=Thurber House|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-06|archive-date=2018-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206235318/http://www.thurberhouse.org/thurber-prize-winner/|url-status=dead}} In 2019, The Times included the book on its list "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years,"{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/26/books/best-memoirs.html |title=The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years|work=The New York Times|date=26 June 2019 |access-date=2019-06-26|language=en-US}} and The Guardian named it one of the 100 best books of the 21st century.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-century|title=The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-09-14|language=en-US}}

Riverhead also published Lockwood's debut novel, No One Is Talking About This, in February 2021. It was simultaneously released by Bloomsbury in the UK.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bloomsbury-scoops-lockwoods-miraculous-debut-novel-1219113|title=Bloomsbury Wins Auction for Lockwood's "Miraculous" Debut Novel|work=The Bookseller|access-date=2020-09-16|language=en-US}} The book follows an unnamed female protagonist's interactions with a virtual platform called "the portal." Lockwood has acknowledged that much of the second part of No One Is Talking About This was inspired by real-life events surrounding her niece Lena, the first person diagnosed in utero with Proteus syndrome.{{cite web |last=Westenfeld |first=Adrienne |date=16 February 2021 |title=Patricia Lockwood: 'In the Face of Tragedy, Patricia Lockwood Found the Real World Again' |url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a35463236/patricia-lockwood-no-one-is-talking-about-this-interview |access-date=22 February 2023 |website=Esquire}} Writing for The New York Review of Books, Clair Wills praised the novel as "an arch descendant of Austen's socio-literary style — a novel of observation, crossed with a memoir of a family crisis, and written as a prose poem, steeped in metaphor."{{Cite news|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/02/25/bildungsonline-patricia-lockwood-no-one-talking/|title=Bildungsonline|last=Wills|first=Clair|work=The New York Review of Books|access-date=2021-02-06|language=en-US}} In The Wall Street Journal, Emily Bobrow called the novel "artful" and "an intimate and moving portrait of love and grief."{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-one-is-talking-about-this-review-life-in-the-slipstream-11612538857|title=Life in the Slipstream|last=Bobrow|first=Emily|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=2021-02-06|language=en-US}} It won the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize, was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, and was one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2021.{{Cite web|title=No One Is Talking About This {{!}} The Booker Prizes|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/no-one-is-talking-about-this|access-date=2021-09-22|website=thebookerprizes.com|date=16 February 2021 |language=en}} In 2024, The Atlantic included No One Is Talking About This among its Great American Novels.{{cite news |title=The Great American Novels |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/best-books-american-fiction/677479/ |access-date=18 March 2024 |publisher=The Atlantic}}

Lockwood's essays and literary criticism, most notably in the London Review of Books, have been collected in The Best American Essays series and introduced works by authors including Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Rachel Ingalls.{{cite web |title=The Best American Essays 2021 |url=https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/the-best-american-essays-2021/9780358381754 |website=The Best American Essays |access-date=28 July 2021 |archive-date=23 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023012418/https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/the-best-american-essays-2021/9780358381754 |url-status=dead }} The New Yorker has called Lockwood "a wizardly reviewer," and The Paris Review has celebrated her as "a cultural critic at the height of her powers."{{Cite news|url= https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10/11/staff-picks-monsters-monkeys-and-maladies/|title=Monsters, Monkies, and Maladies|work=The Paris Review|access-date=2019-12-16|language=en-US}} Praising her "fine thinking" and "purposeful comedy," The New York Times Magazine{{'}}s Wyatt Mason concluded, "Nothing will get you to read literary criticism" if Lockwood can't.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/magazine/london-review-of-books-mary-kay-wilmers.html|title=How Mary-Kay Wilmers Became Britain's Most Influential Editor|work=The New York Times|date=24 October 2019 |access-date=2019-12-16|language=en-US}}

Personal life

Lockwood is married to Jason Kendall, "a journalist, designer, and editor."{{cite news |last=Kellaway |first=Kate |date=30 April 2017 |title=Patricia Lockwood: 'I'm a show-off, a clown' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/30/patricia-lockwood-rape-poem-interview-priestdaddy-im-a-showoff |access-date=June 6, 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian}} "She married at 21, has scarcely ever held a job and, by her telling, seems to have spent her adult life in a Proustian attitude, writing for hours each day from her 'desk-bed'," according to a profile in The New York Times Magazine.

Lockwood and her husband have three cats named Miette, Fenriz, and Gilly.{{Cite web |last=Conaboy |first=Kelly |date=2019-08-15 |title=Let Me Tell You About My Pet: Patricia Lockwood on Miette |url=https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/let-me-tell-you-about-my-pet-patricia-lockwood-miette.html |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=The Cut |language=en}} Lockwood contracted COVID-19 in March 2020, and as of February 2021 was still living with long COVID symptoms.{{cite web |title=Patricia Lockwood: The Internet Dominates Our Lives, So Why Not Our Fiction? |url=https://lithub.com/patricia-lockwood-the-internet-dominates-our-lives-so-why-not-our-fiction/ |website=Lit Hub |date=18 February 2021 |access-date=6 June 2022}}

Awards and nominations

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Work

!Award

!Category

!Result

!Ref.

2015

|"Rape Joke"

|Pushcart Prize

|—

|{{Won|Selected}}

|

rowspan="2" |2017

| rowspan="3" |Priestdaddy

|Goodreads Choice Award

|Memoir & Autobiography|| {{nom|Nominated—20th}}

|{{Cite web |title=Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Memoir & Autobiography! |url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-memoir-autobiography-books-2017 |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=Goodreads}}

Kirkus Prize

|Nonfiction

{{sho}}

|{{Cite news |title=The 20 Best Books of 2017, According to Amazon's Editors |url=http://www.bustle.com/p/the-20-best-books-of-2017-according-to-amazons-editors-3251462 |access-date=2017-11-08 |work=Bustle |language=en-US}}

2018

|Thurber Prize for American Humor

|—|| {{won}}

|{{Cite web |title=2018 THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR WINNER |url=http://www.thurberhouse.org/thurber-prize-winner/ |access-date=2018-12-06 |website=Thurber House |language=en-US}}

rowspan="3" |2021

| rowspan="5" |No One Is Talking About This

|Booker Prize

|—|| {{sho}}

|{{Cite web |title=The 2021 Booker Prize longlist is |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/fiction/2021 |access-date=July 27, 2021 |website=The Booker Prizes}}

Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

|—

{{sho}}

|{{Cite web |title=Announcing the 2021 First Novel Prize Shortlist |url=https://centerforfiction.org/book-recs/announcing-the-2021-first-novel-prize-shortlist/ |access-date=September 28, 2021 |website=The Center for Fiction}}

Women's Prize for Fiction

|—

{{sho}}

|{{Cite web |title=Women's prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/28/womens-prize-for-fiction-shortlist-susanna-clarke-yaa-gyasi-patricia-lockwood |access-date=July 27, 2021 |website=the Guardian}}

rowspan="2" |2022

|Dylan Thomas Prize

|—|| {{won}}

|{{Cite web |title=Lockwood and Azumah Nelson make shortlist for £30k Dylan Thomas Prize |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/lockwood-and-azumah-nelson-make-shortlist-for-30k-dylan-thomas-prize |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=The Bookseller}}

International Dublin Literary Award

|—

{{nom|Longlisted}}

|{{Cite web |title=2022 Dublin Literary Award Longlist |url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie |access-date=January 31, 2022 |website=DUBLIN Literary Award}}

Bibliography

=Fiction=

  • {{cite book |first=Patricia |last=Lockwood |title=No One Is Talking About This |publisher=Riverhead Books |year=2021 |isbn=9780593189580 |author-mask=2}}
  • {{cite book |first=Patricia |last=Lockwood |title=Will There Ever Be Another You |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |year=2025 |isbn=9781526694980 |author-mask=2}}

=Nonfiction=

  • {{cite book |first=Patricia |last=Lockwood |title=Priestdaddy |publisher=Riverhead Books |year=2017 |isbn=9781594633737 |author-mask=2}}

=Poetry collections=

  • {{cite book |first=Patricia |last=Lockwood |title=Balloon Pop Outlaw Black |publisher=Octopus Books |year=2012 |isbn=9780985118228 |edition=paperback |author-mask=2}}
  • {{cite book |first=Patricia |last=Lockwood |title=Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2014 |isbn=9780141984865 |edition=paperback |author-mask=2}}
  • {{cite book |last=Lockwood |first=Patricia |title=Penguin Modern Poets 2: Controlled Explosions: Michael Robbins, Patricia Lockwood, Timothy Thornton |author2=Michael Robbins |author3=Timothy Thornton |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2017 |author-mask=2}}

= Selected poems =

All poems published by Lockwood.

class="wikitable sortable" width="90%"
|Year

!|Title and debut publication

2011

|{{cite magazine |date=November 28, 2011 |title=Love Poem Like We Used to Write It |magazine=The New Yorker |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/28/love-poem-like-we-used-to-write-it }}

2012

|{{cite journal |date=April 1, 2012 |title=The Arch |journal=Poetry |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55477/the-arch }}

rowspan="4" |2013

|{{cite journal |date=July 25, 2013 |title=Rape Joke |journal=The Awl |url=http://www.theawl.com/2013/07/patricia-lockwood-rape-joke/ }}

{{cite magazine |date=October 28, 2013 |title=What Is the Zoo for What |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=34 |pages=56–57 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/28/what-is-the-zoo-for-what }}
{{cite journal |date=December 1, 2013 |title=Government Spending |journal=Poetry |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56645/government-spending }}
{{cite journal |date=December 1, 2013 |title=The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks |journal=Poetry |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/246888 }}
rowspan="3" |2017

|{{cite journal |date=September 1, 2017 |title=Jewel Thief Movie |journal=Poetry |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/143938/jewel-thief-movie }}

{{cite journal |date=September 1, 2017 |title=The Ode on a Grecian Urn |journal=Poetry |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/143936/the-ode-on-a-grecian-urn }}
{{cite journal |date=March 16, 2017 |title=The Pinch |journal=The Awl |url=http://www.theawl.com/2017/03/a-poem-by-patricia-lockwood/ }}
2018

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