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Patricia Fargnoli

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Patricia Fargnoli. Courtesy Gwarlingo.

Patricia Fargnoli (born 1937)[1] is an award-winning American poet, who served as the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.

Life[]

Fargnoli is an alumna of Trinity College, Connecticut, Hartford College for Women, and the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. She is a retired psychotherapist.

She has served as an Associate Editor of The Worcester Review, and taught at The Frost Place, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and the Lifelong Learning Program at Keene State College.

Fargnoli published her earliest book of poetry at the age of 62.[2] Her collections include Necessary Light (Utah State University Press, 1999), winner of the May Swenson Book Award; Lives of Others (Oyster River Press, 2001); Small Songs of Pain (Pecan Grove Press, 2003); Duties of the Spirit (Tupelo Press, 2005) which won the Jane Kenyon Literary Award for Outstanding Poetry by a New Hampshire poet, and most recently,Then, Something, (also from Tupelo Press, 2009).

Her poems have appeared in magazines and literary journals including Poetry, Ploughshares,[3] Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, and others.

A resident of Walpole, New Hampshire, she is a member of the New Hampshire Arts Council Touring Roster and of the New Hampshire Writers Project. She has 3 children: Kenneth, Michael, and Diana; and 4 grandchildren: Alycia, Joseph Fargnoli, Joshua, and Jessica.

Recognition[]

Fargnoll is the recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony.[4]

Her debut poetry collection, Necesssary Light, won the May Swenson Book Award. Her 2005 collection, Duties of the Spirit, was awarded the Jane Kenyon Literary Award for outstanding poetry by a New Hampshire poet.

Then, Something (2009) won the 2009 Foreword Review Best of the Year Silver Award in Poetry, and was an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award in Poetry.

Fargnoli served as New Hampshire Poet Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009.[5]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Necessary Light: Poems. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999.
  • Lives of Others. Durham, NH: Oyster River Press, 2001.
  • Small Songs of Pain. San Antonio, TX: Pecan Grove Press, 2003.
  • Greatest Hits, 1987-2003. Columbus, OH: Pudding House, 2004.
  • Duties of the Spirit. Dorset, VT: Tupelo Press, 2005.
  • Then, Something: Poems. North Andrews, MA: Tupelo Press, 2009.
  • Winter. Brookline, NH: Hobblebush Books, 2013.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]

See also[]

Preceded by
Cynthia Huntington 		New Hampshire Poet Laureate
2006-2009 		Succeeded by
Walter Butts


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Patricia Fargnoli - "Wherever You Are Going"

References[]

  1. ↑ Patricia Fargnoli, MyLife.com. Web, Feb. 17, 2013.
  2. ↑ The Sunday Poem: Patricia Fargnoli's Winter, Gwarlingo. Web, Oct. 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Patricia Fargnoli
  4. ↑ The MacDowell Colony > Index of MacDowell Fellows
  5. ↑ New Hampshire State Council on the Arts > Arts & Artists
  6. ↑ Search results = au:Patricia Fargnoli, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 4, 2014.

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