Patrick Pritchett books of poetry include Burn – Doxology for Joan of Arc (Chax, 2005), Gnostic Frequencies (Spuyten Duyvil, 2011), SONG X (Talisman House, 2014), Orphic Noise (Dos Madres Press, 2017), Refrain Series (2020) and Sunderland (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) as well as the chapbooks Ark Dive, Reside, Lives of the Poets, Antiphonal, and Salt, My Love. His poems have been anthologized in The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Litscape: US Writings 2015, and Resist Much/Obey Little, and have appeared in Hambone, New American Writing, Lana Turner, Interim, Colorado Review, Shiny, New Review of Literature, Prairie Schooner and The Modern Review, among others.
From 2006-2014 he taught as a Lecturer in the History and Literature Program at Harvard University. He continued till 2016 to teach courses in Science Fiction and Postmodernism in the Harvard Summer School program. From 2011 to 2015 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in English and Film Studies at Amherst College. After a year as Associate Professor at Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China, he returned to the U.S., and currently teaches as a lecturer in Comp Lit at Rutgers.
His critical study, Make It Broken: Toward a Poetics of Late Modernism, forthcoming from Black Square Editions, focuses on aesthetically affiliated poets who carry forward a constructivist Poundian aesthetics of montage and constellation, not to forge a retrograde cultural gestalt, but to investigate the ruptures and fissures of a postwar world. Pritchett’s numerous scholarly publications include essays in Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Politics of Place (Iowa University Press), Ronald Johnson: Life and Works (National Poetry Foundation), "How to Write Poetry after Auschwitz: The Burnt Book of Michael Palmer, " (JML 37.3) and essays on postmodern poets Fanny Howe, John Taggart, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. An essay on the religious turn in contemporary poetry was featured in ELN. With Kathleen Fraser he co-authored an exchange of letters on poetry and form that appeared in Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetry, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Press). He is a frequent contributor to the University of Pennsylvania’s Jacket 2, where his most recent work includes essays on Raul Zurita, George Oppen, Michael Palmer, Lisa Jarnot, and Lee Ann Brown.
A former story analyst and development consultant in the film business, he worked for James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, John Badham, Rob Cohen, Tri Star, and HBO Pictures.
