Patricia Carragon

Patricia Carragon is known throughout New York City as an energetic and indefatigable writer/poet/curator who runs the long-running and popular Brownstone Poets Reading Series, promoting poetry nationally and internationally. She is the editor of the online journal, Sense and Sensibility Haiku, and an emerging photographer.

Ms. Carragon has been widely published in print and online, including A Gathering of the Tribes; Alien Buddha Press; Arriving at a Shoreline (great weather for MEDIA anthology); Beat Generation Anthology; BigCityLit; The Café Review; CAPS 25th Anniversary Anthology; Carnyx Collective Anthology; Clockwise Cat; Cold Mountain Review; Danse Macabre; First Literary Review-East, Fixed and Free Quarterly; Five Fleas Itchy Poetry; Jerry Jazz Musician; I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe; Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art; Mom Egg Review; Moonstone Press; Muddy River Poetry Review; NarrativeNortheast; Nat’l & Int’l Goddess Anthology; Nixes Mate Review; Orbis; Out Loud, an LGBTQ Literary Art Anthology; Panoplyzine; Paterson Literary Review; Poetrybay; Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow; The Scene; Shadow Pond Journal; Spillwords; Wales Haiku Journal; Waymark Literary Magazine; What Rough Beast (Indolent Books); When Women Speak Poetry Anthology; Witchery, et al.

Books include her first of fiction, The Cupcake Chronicles (Poets Wear Prada, 2017); a haiku/photography chapbook on cats, Meowku (Poets Wear Prada, 2019); and her debut novel, Angel Fire (Alien Buddha Press, 2020). Her poetry collections comprise Innocence (Finishing Line Press, 2017), Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010), and Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005).

Nominations include Sundress Publications’ Annual Best of the Net for Poetry (2025): “Cherry Blossoms” (Poets Wear Prada); Pushcart Prize for Poetry (2024): “Wild Is the Wind” (Poets Wear Prada’s Rainbow Project); Pushcart Prize for Poetry (2021): “faucet waterfall” (Bear Creek Haiku); Sundress Publications’ Annual Best of the Net for Fiction (2020): “What Has to Happen Next” (Al-Khemia Poetica); Pushcart Prize for Fiction (2018): “Saturday After Midnight, August 5, 2023” from The Cupcake Chronicles (Poets Wear Prada); and great weather for MEDIA’s Poem of the Week winner (April 2020): “Paris the Beautiful.” She was a Long Island Light Poetry Competition finalist (2016) and received a Poets & Writers grant for a Fort Greene Poetry Festival performance in Brooklyn (April 2022).

Ms. Carragon is also an avid performer of her work in various venues throughout NYC and its environs, as well as virtually. She has appeared on Anne Cammon Fiero’s Studio A Radio Series (WKCR 89.9 FM – Columbia University); William Washington’s One On Poetry; Christal Cooper’s Backstory of the Poem; Rick Spisak’s Poets of the East. She was part of David Morneau’s CD, Love Songs and David Dephy’s Poetry Orchestra, and segments from The Cupcake Chronicles were recited on Jools Voice Over, YouTube.

Ms. Carragon lives in Brooklyn, NY.

For Patricia, poetry allows the imagination to guide the hand in writing down the voice from within. Poetry is a safe flight into her darkest moments and other forbidden territories, with her at the controls. By using words on paper, they become puppets. Through these puppets, she can express any deep-rooted fear or desire without submitting herself to embarrassing conversation. She prefers to get things down on paper as a catharsis for the soul. These emotions and ideas, whether they are dark or light are beautified and the afterimages that they produce are rewarding and uplifting. Please share her experience and take a journey to where the intelligence of the heart can contemplate the complexities of the mind.