Juliet Patterson
Biography
Juliet Patterson is the author of Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide (Milkweed Editions, 2022) and two full-length poetry collections, Threnody (Nightboat Books, 2016), a finalist for the 2017 Audre Lorde Poetry Award, and The Truant Lover (Nightboat Books, 2006), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award. A recipient of an Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize in nonfiction and a Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, she has also been awarded fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Minneapolis-based Creative Community Leadership Institute (formerly the Institute for Community and Creative Development).
photo credit: Ayanna Muata
Events
Everything You Want to Know about the Craft of Poetry (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Description
In this workshop, we’ll break down the elements of poetry in nitty-gritty style, unpacking various aspects of poetic craft. Subjects in this workshop will be tailored to participants, but may include strategies in creating and deploying imagery; choices in creating line breaks; methods of creating...
The Art of Making a Scene: From Fact to Story
Description
One challenge of translating research into writing is building scenes or descriptive details from facts. How do writers of literary nonfiction and poetry create characters, places, and dramatic narratives rooted in true details? And how do you move back and forth between researched material and...
