Patricia Ranzoni

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Bucksport, ME 044169618

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Author's Bio

*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, TAKE ME BACK TO SEBEC (2003), HIBERNACULUM & Other North-natured Poems (2010) and FROM HERE, Poems from Being Born in Lincoln, Maine (2010) through OneWater Press.

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won:

First Place, 2010 Rockland, Maine POETRY MONTH Contest. Other Honors: In 2004 University of Maine classmates gave a step in her honor for the renovation of the Fogler Library entrance for whose dedication she was invited to compose and read her "Steps." 2008 Chapbook publication in Pudding House Publications' invitational GREATEST HITS National Archives Series; selection to perform at 2011 American Folk Festival. 2012 invitations to read at Maine Equal Justice Partners' "Poetry, Poverty & Blues" and Gala commemorating 100th anniversary of Edna St. Vincent Millay's discovery at Whitehall Inn. Also in 2012 named first Poet Laureate of University of Maine Class of 1962, chosen by Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair as one of the featured readers in his "Poetry Express" (through Maine) series, received nomination for St. Botolph Foundation Emerging Artist Award. In 2014 named first Poet Laureate of Bucksport, Maine, for life.

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Lincoln

Raised in:

Bucksport, ME

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Last updated: Jul 05, 2014