Printable view of Patrice M. Wilson

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Mililani, HI

Hawaii US

Email:

wilsonpatricem970@gmail.com

Bio:

Born in Newark, NJ. Have lived in North Carolina, Connecticut, Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, and Hawaii. Educated at Yale (student); U-Maryland, College Park (graduated BA English); U-Hawaii at Manoa (MA with Poetry Thesis and PhD in English). Associate Professor of English Emerita, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaii. Retired 2015. Entered Carmelite Monastery, Kaneohe, Hawaii, in 2014 to study to be a Carmelite cloistered nun and left in 2019. Fully retired and loving it!

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

No

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins; T.S. Eliot; Ezra Pound; Pablo Neruda; Robert Hayden; Lucille Clifton; Denise Levertov; Charles Simic; Amy Clampitt; Mary Oliver; Billy Collins; Gwendolyn Brooks; Juan de Yepes; Shakespeare; Elizabeth Alexander; Joy Harjo; Haunani Kay Trask; Hone Tuwhare; Diana Woodcock; Troy Jollimore. Novelists: Chinua Achebe; Louise Ehrdrich; Patricia Grace. Others: James Joyce; Karol Wojtyla; Robert Barron; Phillip Krill; Bharati Mukherjee; Annie Dillard.

Born in:

Newark, NJ

New Jersey

Raised in:

Roselle, NJ

New Jersey

Website:

https://pmwilsonpoet.com [2]

Prizes won:

University of Hawaii Myrle Clark Poetry Competition, Third Prize; Academy of American Poets UH Competition, Honorable Mention; First runner up in Redgreene Press (Pittsburgh, PA) Poetry Chapbook Contest; Runner up in Dead Metaphor Press Chapbook Contest. Fifth Honorable Mention in Finishing Line Press’s (Ohio) New Women’s Voices Poetry Contest;Nomination for the Science Fiction Poetry Association Best (published) Short Poem. Hawaii Literary Arts Council Loretta Petrie Award, for outstanding service to the Hawaii literary arts community; longlisted in Aesthetica Creative Writing Contest 2020 and 2021 (Poetry). 10th place Poetry Superhighway Contest 2022. Pushcart Prize Nomination 2022: Susan Furst, Ed. Word on the Street Magazine, UW-Stout.

What I'm reading now:

Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry by Jay Hopper and Kimberly Johnson, Eds.

The Jazz Poetry Anthology by Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa, Eds.

Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Stephen Tapscott

Whale Day by Billy Collins

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Any