TRANSGRESSIONS I know I / am not supposed / to be writing our women / digging their greens, tres- / passing in another class, / but this ground is composed of my people / and I am on my knees / and this is a knife. Working from one of the subsistence homesteads of her youth, mixed-blood Yankee, Patricia Smith Ranzoni, considers the cultures of her boundary-crossing people in seaboard, outback, and upriver Maine and Canada to be her literary credentials. A former child development specialist and education consultant, her unschooled documentary poetry has been published across America and abroad, is drawn from by UM departments of English, and is archived by writing, history, working class, folk, disability, and women’s studies and realities in whose settings and by whose fires, near and away, she reads and recites. In addition to the published chapbooks listed, she has handmade and sewn sheafs of her work entitled, HIBERNACULUM & Other North-natured Poems (2010) and FROM HERE, Poems from Being Born in Lincoln, Maine (2010). Link: http://bangordailynews.com/2010/09/12/living/poems-capture-themes-of-maine-living/ Her next full collection, BEDDING VOWS, Love Poems from Outback Maine, is forthcoming from North Country Press.

Only Human: Poems from the Atlantic Flyway (Sheltering Pines Press, 2005), Settling (Puckerbrush Press, 2000), Claiming (Puckerbrush Press, 1995)

WHEREing, Poems of Location & Adornment (Red Ochre Press, 2011), Patricia Ranzoni Greatest Hits 1982 - 2008 (Pudding House Publications, 2009), Leavings (Lillian Baker Kennedy, 2005)

Maine in Four Seasons: 20 Poets Celebrate the Turning Year (Down East Books, 2010), A Coastal Companion: A Year in the Gulf of Maine, from Cape Cod to Canada (Tilbury House, 2008), Illness & Grace/Terror & Transformation (Wising Up Press, 2007), Paintings of Maine: A New Collection Selected by Carl Little (Down East Books, 2006), The Other Side of Sorrow/Poets Speak Out About Conflict, War, and Peace (Poetry Society of New Hampshire, 2006), Fresh Water (Pudding House Publications, 2002), Prayers to Protest (Pudding House Publications, 1998)

Blueline, Buffalo Vortex, Cafe Review, Christian Science Monitor, Green Fuse, Off the Coast, Scythe, Shearsman, Spoon River Poetry Review, Three Candles, Untitled Country Review, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics/Streetnotes