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Patrick Donnelly

Patrick Donnelly is the author of three books of poetry, The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press); Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012), a 2013 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and Little-Known Operas, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2019. Donnelly is director of the Frost Place Poetry Seminar at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, now a center for poetry and the arts. Donnelly’s translations of classical Japanese poetry with Stephen D. Miller were awarded the 2015-2016 Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.