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 ''

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'', '' 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

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. In 2009, he was awarded a

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to the Philippines. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the

University of Texas, Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 20 ...

Bloomfield College Bloomfield College of Montclair State University is a public college in Bloomfield, New Jersey, Bloomfield, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is chartered by the State of New Jersey and Higher education accreditation in the United States, accre ...

, and is Distinguished Professor of English and Communication at

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Awards

* 2007 - Global Filipino Literary Award for ''My American Kundiman'' * 2008 - Association for Asian American Studies Poetry/Prose Award for ''My American Kundiman'' * 2011 - National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlight for ''Boneshepherds'' * 2017 -

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

* 2017 - Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for ''Brooklyn Antediluvian'' * 2017 - Finalist for the

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the U ...

for ''Brooklyn Antediluvian'' * 2018 - National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship * 2022 - William Carlos Williams Award

Bibliography

Books

* ''Brooklyn Antediluvian'' (Persea Books, 2016) , * ''Boneshepherds'' (Persea Books, 2011) , * ''My American Kundiman'' (Persea Books, 2006) , * ''Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive'' (Persea Books, 2003) , * ''The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems'' (Persea Books, 2021) ,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosal, Patrick Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Filipino male poets Filipino male writers Sarah Lawrence College alumni Sarah Lawrence College faculty Rutgers University–Camden faculty University of Texas at Austin faculty