Authors and Illustrators Database

Patricia F. Clark

Born: 02/08/1951  Tacoma, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: Cecil D. and Norma Clark
Address(es):
Permanent:
1483 Three Mile Road, NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49505
USA
Contact Information:
Website: http://www.patriciafclark.com/

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Sunday rising : poems Poetry Adult East Lansing : Michigan State University Press 2013
Given the trees
- Chapbook
Michigan, Poetry Adult Placitas, N.M. : Voices from the American Land 2009
She walks into the sea : poems Poetry Adult East Lansing : Michigan State University Press 2009
My Father on a Bicycle Poetry Adult East Lansing : Michigan State University Press 2005
North of Wondering Poetry Adult Allendale, MI : Grand Valley State University 1999-2003
- Poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Criterion, New England Review, North American Review, Missouri Review, Pennsylvania Review, Seattle Review
What is the aim or goal of your writing: To shape interesting words, ideas, and emotions into poems, and to discover in the process new things about the world, myself, and others.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Poet

Awards:

Name Date
Named Grand Rapids Poet Laureate 2005
Co-winner, Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America 1989
Alan Collins Scholar in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 1984
Resident Fellow, MacDowell Colony 1984

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Houston Houston, TX 1981-1986
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) University of Montana Missoula, MT 1978-1980
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) University of Washington Seattle, WA 1969-1974

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Associate professor and Poet-in-residence Grand Valley State University Allendale, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1989
Instructor University of Tennessee Knoxville 1986-1989

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