Just Published: Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
Congratulations to Patricia whose poem "My Beautiful Family" was featured on Verse Daily on June 14, 2020. First published in the journal Cave Wall, the poem appears in Patricia's Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars.
Praise for Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars
Patricia Clark's poems immerse the reader in the living world through the quality of her attention and appreciation. There's hard-won intelligence here. We see it in people sharing a meal and being especially kind to each other after a suicide: lots of please and thanks / as we handed food around / basket of steaming bread / for buttering. Always, there is a deep understanding of our interconnections, as in the lovely and evocative final stanza of "Near the Tea House at Meijer Japanese Garden," now tracing a pale blue vein / under the skin like a leaf's midrib. We would do well to take Patricia Clark's guidance: The charge: note what is here, what departs.
—Ellen Bass
Patricia Clark's poems immerse the reader in the living world through the quality of her attention and appreciation. There's hard-won intelligence here. We see it in people sharing a meal and being especially kind to each other after a suicide: lots of please and thanks / as we handed food around / basket of steaming bread / for buttering. Always, there is a deep understanding of our interconnections, as in the lovely and evocative final stanza of "Near the Tea House at Meijer Japanese Garden," now tracing a pale blue vein / under the skin like a leaf's midrib. We would do well to take Patricia Clark's guidance: The charge: note what is here, what departs.
—Ellen Bass
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Patricia Clark is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Canopy (Terrapin Books, 2017), which won the 2018 PSV North American Poetry Book Award, and three chapbooks, including Deadlifts (New Michigan Press, 2018). She has won The Fourth River’s Folio Competition, Mississippi Review’s Poetry Prize, second prize in the Pablo Neruda/Hardiman Prize from Nimrod Magazine, and was the co-winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Prize. She has completed residencies at The MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Colony, and The Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. She was the poet laureate of Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 2005-2007. She teaches in the Writing Department at Grand Valley State University in Michigan where she is also the university's poet in residence. For many years she was the coordinator for Poetry Night, part of GVSU’s Fall Arts Celebration.
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