Patrick Donnelly

PATRICK DONNELLY is the author of five books of poetry, Willow Hammer (Four Way Books, spring 2025), Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012, a Lambda Literary Award finalist), and The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Donnelly is program director of The Frost Place (Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, now a center for poetry and the arts), as well as director of the Poetry Seminar, an annual online poetry conference sponsored by TFP. He has taught at Smith College, Colby College, the Lesley University MFA Program, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Slate, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, and many other journals. With his spouse Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly translates classical Japanese poetry and drama. The translations in The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013) were awarded the 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Donnelly and Miller’s translations have appeared in many journals, including Bateau, Circumference, thedrunkenboat, eXchanges, Kyoto Journal, Metamorphoses, New Plains Review, Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, andTransference. Donnelly’s other awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award.