Patrick Rosal

Professor of Creative Writing

Patrick Rosal joined the faculty of the Department of English and Communication at Rutgers University–Camden in 2011. He holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. In 2018, he was named a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.

Publications:

• Binyag sa Taglamig (Christened in Winter), Ateneo de Naga University Press, 2023

• The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems, Persea Books

• Brooklyn Antediluvian, Persea Books

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• Holley Lecture, Bloomfield College

• National Book Festival

• New Labor Forum 25th Anniversary, CUNY

Previous Organizations: 

• Princeton University

• University of Texas, Austin

• Sarah Lawrence College

Accomplishments:

• Guggenheim Fellow

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellow

• Lenore Marshall Prize Winner

Upcoming Projects:

• Quilting Water

• Elegy for the Dance Floor

• Art Song setting of Lucille Clifton's poem "Sorrows"

A Directors' Signature Research Project: Institute Codirector Patrick Rosal, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden

Quilting Water is a five-year international public art initiative. In its local form, the project explores the relationship residents of Camden, New Jersey, have to the increasingly vulnerable public resource of water. A community of Black quilters from Camden will be commissioned to make quilts in conversation with photos and oral histories from their own city. The institute will publish a book of the photos, excerpts of the interviews, and images of the quilts, as well as text about water and the intersections of race and environmental justice.

https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/what-we-do/directors-signature-research-projects/quilting-water

This program is part of a collaboration between the Institute and the Writers House at Rutgers University, Camden. This partnership seeks to work with artists to imagine new formats for the presentation of challenging, interdisciplinary literary work that engages questions of racial reckoning.

The most recent workshop can be viewed here. 

Occasions for Gathering is happy to present a series of events celebrating So We Can Know, a literary anthology addressing a range of reproductive experiences—from pregnancy and childbirth to abortion and loss. We are inviting women and birthing people to three spring writing workshops. Open to writers and non-writers alike these sessions are led by So We Can Know contributors.

With these gatherings, we hope to spark deep listening, narrative power, and the empathy necessary for a more just future.

https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/news/so-we-can-know-article-spring-2023