Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Patricia Farewell

”Writing a poem is like making an artifact. It is making something physical out of words.” –Galway Kinnell

Publications

Poems and Articles:

New York Times, Partisan Review, American Poetry Review, Little Magazine, New Letters, New York Quarterly, Creeping Bent, Caprice, West Branch, Writing for Our Lives, Junction, Green Mountain Review, Formalist, Sistersong, and other magazines.

Anthologies:

Desire, edited by William Packard
Waltzing on Water: Poetry by Women, edited by Norma Fox Mazer and Marjorie Lewis
The Spirit That Moves Us Reader, edited by Morty Sklar
Ascent: The Climbing Experience in Words and Image, eds. Steck, Roper, and Harris

Awards:

Frederick Morgan Poetry Prize for a first book
The Ken McLaren Award
Arvon Foundation Award
Roberts Writing Award
Finalist in The Walt Whitman Competition
Finalist in The Vassar Miller Prize Competition

Biography

For twenty years, Patricia Farewell has been helping people of all ages write poems that possess the power of artifacts. Students and teachers in her workshops learn to use fresh imagery, surprising metaphors, evocative rhythms, and numerous sound devices in their poems. They are encouraged to revise and are given methods to do so. Patricia introduces many styles of poetry to her students and creates an atmosphere where experiments thrive.

Patricia’s poems have appeared in Formalist, Chelsea, West Branch, New York Quarterly, One Trick Pony, and Caprice. Her poem “From the Lighthouse,” which was awarded the 1996 John Joseph Memorial Award by the World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets, is inscribed on bluestone benches at the base of a 90-foot lighthouse sculpture in Atlantic City.