Patrice M. Wilson

Poet

Mililani, HI
Hawaii US
Email: 
wilsonpatricem970@gmail.com
Website: 
pmwilsonpoet.com

Author's Bio

Born in Newark, NJ. Have lived in North Carolina, Connecticut, Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, and Hawaii. Educated at Yale (student); U-Maryland, College Park (graduated BA English); U-Hawaii at Manoa (MA with Poetry Thesis and PhD in English). Associate Professor of English Emerita, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaii. Retired 2015. Entered Carmelite Monastery, Kaneohe, Hawaii, in 2014 to study to be a Carmelite cloistered nun and left in 2019. Fully retired and loving it! 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (Aesthetica Magazine Ltd., 2022)
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Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2021 (Aesthetica Magazine Ltd., 2021)
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Sunset Inn: Tales from the North Shore (Romance Writers of America, Aloha Chapter, 2012)
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Rhysling Anthology (Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2011)
Book:
Hues of Darkness, Hues of Light (eLectio Publishing, 2013)
Chapbooks:
A Different Current (Finishing Line Press, 2011)
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On Neither Side (Finishing Line Press, 2009)
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When All Else Falters (Finishing Line Press, 2003)
Journals:
50 Haikus
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Agape Review
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Barbaric Yawp
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Bloodroot Literary Magazine
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Byline
,
Calvert Review
,
Closed Eye Open
,
Common Ground Review
,
Conversations Across Borders
,
Decolonial Passage
,
Dream International Quarterly
,
Eclipse
,
Eunoia Review
,
Harpstrings
,
Hawaii Review
,
Hawaii Pacific Review
,
Journal of New Jersey Poets
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Lucid Moon
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Nethula Journal
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Nimrod
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Niteblade
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Otherwise Engaged
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Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts
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Poetica Review
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Poetry Quarterly
,
Poetry Super Highway
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Poiesis
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Silent Spark Press
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Snail Mail Review
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Thimble Literary Magazine
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Trouvaille Review
,
Word On The Street: A new journal of Jesus poems
,
Yes, Poetry
Prizes won: 

University of Hawaii Myrle Clark Poetry Competition, Third Prize; Academy of American Poets UH Competition, Honorable Mention; First runner up in Redgreene Press (Pittsburgh, PA) Poetry Chapbook Contest;  Runner up in Dead Metaphor Press Chapbook Contest. Fifth Honorable Mention in Finishing Line Press’s (Ohio) New Women’s Voices Poetry Contest;Nomination for the Science Fiction Poetry Association Best (published) Short Poem. Hawaii Literary Arts Council Loretta Petrie Award, for outstanding service to the Hawaii literary arts community; longlisted in Aesthetica Creative Writing Contest 2020 and 2021 (Poetry). 10th place Poetry Superhighway Contest 2022. Pushcart Prize Nomination 2022: Susan Furst, Ed. Word on the Street Magazine, UW-Stout.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins; T.S. Eliot; Ezra Pound; Pablo Neruda; Robert Hayden; Lucille Clifton; Denise Levertov; Charles Simic; Amy Clampitt; Mary Oliver; Billy Collins; Gwendolyn Brooks; Juan de Yepes; Shakespeare; Elizabeth Alexander; Joy Harjo; Haunani Kay Trask; Hone Tuwhare; Diana Woodcock; Troy Jollimore. Novelists: Chinua Achebe; Louise Ehrdrich; Patricia Grace. Others: James Joyce; Karol Wojtyla; Robert Barron; Phillip Krill; Bharati Mukherjee; Annie Dillard.
What I'm reading now: 
Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry by Jay Hopper and Kimberly Johnson, Eds., The Jazz Poetry Anthology by Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa, Eds., Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Stephen Tapscott, Whale Day by Billy Collins

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
No
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Newark, NJ
New Jersey
Raised in: 
Roselle, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Apr 27, 2023