enjambments, medial and terminal caesura, bloodrush, guitars (takamine single cutaway nylon with DEP; Ibanez Artcore hollowbody; 1930s Regal f-hole), the inexhaustible well of failure that is the new york knicks, the sound of a 80 mph rawlings on the sweet spot of a louisville slugger, kettlebells, goat slaughtering, balacad, laoag city, traducciones, bagoong, kamias, salamagi, manga, vinegar, ancestors, descendants, stories under red-light, flatted fifths, and truths told slant.
Music
rolling stones, charlie parker, bach, jigga, sam cooke, nina simone, john coltrane, ben harper, cultura profetica, alicia keys, bob marley, stevie wonder, afrika bambaataa, susana baca, gap band, d-train, frankie beverly, bill withers, debarge, mantronix, paco delucia, lauryn hill, dinah washington, cassandra wilson, barry manilow, beatles, quincy jones, rakim, hector lavoe, mary j., bob marley, jimmy cliff, aretha franklin, air supply, police, marvin gaye, aaron kernis, earth, wind, and fire, too many to name.
Movies
adaptations of shakespeare; amores perros; friday; one flew over; city of god; swingers; time bandits; ghost dog; ju-on; do the right thing; bull durham; un chien andalou; fisher king; enter the dragon; half-baked; pan's labyrinth; no man's land; spring, summer, fall, winter... and spring; ella enchanted; soy cuba; all kinds of docs
Television
boxing when i can catch it; nova when i can catch it; basketball; baseball; Ultimate Fighter; Miami Ink; Mythbusters; American Chopper
Books
uncle billy shakes; uncle walt; aunt emily; etheridge knight; junot diaz; jessica hagedorn; william matthews; philip levine; tony hoagland; stephen dunn; audre lorde; larry levis; horace; ishmael reed; joan larkin; june jordan; thomas lux; james baldwin; more, more, more...
Heroes
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.--bertolt brecht
Patrick Rosal's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Noside, NJ
Body type:
5' 8" / Average
Ethnicity:
Pacific Islander
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
Children:
Someday
Education:
Grad / professional school
Occupation:
Writer/Academic
Patrick Rosal's Companies
Bloomfield College Bloomfield , NJ US Assistant Professor/coordtnr Writing and Analysis Humanities/English: Creative Writing/Writing and Analysis
99-06
Centre College Danville, CT US Visiting Writer English
Centre Term '07
Penn State Altoona, PA US Visiting Emerging Writer Humanities
Fall 2001
UT Austin Austin, TX US Visiting Prof, Creative Writing English Dept.
07-08
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About me: “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” -- James Baldwin, THE FIRE NEXT TIME
"My aim is to take familiar things and make
Poetry of them, and do it in such a way
That it looks as if it was easy as could be
For anybody to do it (although he'd sweat
And strain and work his head off, alll in vain).
Such is the power of judgment, of knowing what
It means to put the elements together
In just the right way; such is the power of making
A perfectly wonderful thing out of nothing much."
Horace's Epistle to the Pisos (trans. David Ferry)
Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive , which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and most recently My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award.
Recently awarded a Fulbright grant as a U.S. Scholar to the Philippines, he has served as visiting writer at Penn State Altoona, Centre College, and the University of Texas, Austin. He taught creative writing for many years at Bloomfield College and twice served on the faculty of Kundiman’s Summer Retreat for Asian American Poets. In addition to conducting workshops in Alabama prisons through Auburn University, he has taught high school workshops through the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Sarah Lawrence College's Summer Writing Conference for High School Students, and the Volume workshops in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Harvard Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, North American Review, The Literary Review, Pindledyboz, Black Renaissance Noire, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art , and the Beacon Best. His work has been honored by the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Arts and Letters Prize, Best of the Net among others. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken.
His poems and voiceovers were included in the Argentine feature-length film Anhua: Amanecer which screened at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. He was the script-writer for the documentary film Camp Roxas, directed by Alex Munoz. He has also appeared on the Leonard Lopate Show and the BBC Radio's World Today.
His invited readings include the Dodge Poetry Festival, WordFest in Asheville, the poetry reading series at Georgia Tech, Poetry @ MIT, the Carr Reading Series at the University of Illinois, the Whitney Museum, Sarah Lawrence College, where he earned his MFA, and hundreds of other venues that span the United States, London, Buenos Aires, South Africa and the Philippines.
<br />Attention All Poets...the deadline for EXSE Spoken Word is this FRIDAY April 3rd @ 8:00pm...thanks to all the poets who have already registered! And thanks to everyone for spreading the word! I look forward to your entry!<br />If you have any questions, contact me directly at: exsespokenword@channelaustin.org or download the submission form at: http://www.channelaustin.org/sites/channelaustin.org/files/docs/EXSESpokenWordApplication2009.pdf Thanks! Karla Lead Producer EXSE Spoken Word Showcase
hey, I'm good, little nervous though SATs is coming in december it's my first time taking it, studying and everything but people speak as if no one will ever pass it. other than that cool. I won my first poetry slam by the way. how are you?
.yo check out this new poem I wrote in my blog n tell me if it's whack or if I should take it down. and if it doesn't suck too bad leave a comment. lol....LOVE MINT CONDITION. Thats my jam. :)
