Patrick Rosal
{{short description|Filipino American poet and essayist}}
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Patrick Rosal is a Filipino American poet and essayist.
Writing
Rosal is the author of four books of poetry: Brooklyn Antediluvian, Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, all from Persea Books. 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. He is co-founding editor of Some Call It Ballin’, a literary sports magazine.
Career
Rosal received his MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Texas, Austin, Bloomfield College, and is Distinguished Professor of English and Communication at Rutgers University-Camden.
Awards
- 2007 - Global Filipino Literary Award for My American Kundiman{{Cite web|url=http://www.luisaigloria.com/the-global-filipino-literary-awards-thank-you-our-own-voice/|title=The Global Filipino Literary Awards – Thank You, Our Own Voice!|website=www.luisaigloria.com|access-date=2018-05-12}}
- 2008 - Association for Asian American Studies Poetry/Prose Award for My American Kundiman{{Cite web|url=http://aaastudies.org/content/index.php/awards|title=Awards|website=aaastudies.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202234421/http://aaastudies.org/content/index.php/awards|archive-date=2017-02-02|url-status=dead}}
- 2011 - National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlight for Boneshepherds{{Cite web|url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/small-press-highlights-of-2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107034415/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/small-press-highlights-of-2011|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 7, 2012|title=National Book Critics Circle: Small Press Highlights of 2011 - Critical Mass Blog|website=bookcritics.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-12}}
- 2017 - Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/patrick-rosal/|title=Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Patrick Rosal}}
- 2017 - Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Brooklyn Antediluvian{{Cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/lenore-marshall-poetry-prize|title=Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize|date=1979-12-31|website=Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize|language=en|access-date=2018-05-12}}
- 2017 - Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Brooklyn Antediluvian{{Cite web|url=https://arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-awards/winners-finalists/previous-winners-finalists/|title=Previous Winners & Finalists — Tufts Poetry Awards|website=Tufts Poetry Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-12}}
- 2018 - National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship{{Cite news|url=https://www.arts.gov/literature-fellowships-list/by-year/2018?litfellows_type=1&title=&page=1|title=Literature Fellowships - 2018|work=NEA|access-date=2018-05-12|language=en}}
- 2022 - William Carlos Williams Award{{Cite news|url=https://poetrysociety.org/award-winners/poetry-society-of-america-book-award-2022/william-carlos-williams-award|title=William Carlos Williams Award - 2022|date=1979-12-31|website=Poetry Society of America|language=en|access-date=2022-05-09}}
Bibliography
= Books =
- Brooklyn Antediluvian (Persea Books, 2016) {{ISBN|9781518221842}}, {{OCLC|949218104}}
- Boneshepherds (Persea Books, 2011) {{ISBN|9780892553860}}, {{OCLC|711051817}}
- My American Kundiman (Persea Books, 2006) {{ISBN|9780892553303}}, {{OCLC|67383923}}
- Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (Persea Books, 2003) {{ISBN|9780892552931}}, {{OCLC|51323162}}
- The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems (Persea Books, 2021) {{ISBN|9780892555321}}, {{OCLC|1243263051}}
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