Donnelly Patrick

American poet, the author of four poetry collections, The Charge (2003), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (2012), Jesus Said (2017), and Little-Known Operas (2019). His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. Though not of any specific religion, his poetry often takes on subjects such as erotic love or the AIDS epidemic in religious terms. Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. He is currently an associate editor of Poetry International and a contributing editor of Trans-Portal, and from 1999 to 2009 he was an associate editor at Four Way Books. With his spouse Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly translated classical Japanese poems in The Wind from Vulture Peak: the Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (2012). Donnelly was the 2015–2017 Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less