Pattiann Rogers


Pattiann Rogers is an American poet, and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. In 2018, she was awarded a special John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry.

Life

Pattiann Rogers is an American poet living in Colorado with her husband and has two sons and three grandsons. She was born in Joplin, Missouri, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri in 1961. She received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Houston in 1981.
She taught as a visiting writer at the University of Texas, the University of Montana, and at Washington University in St. Louis. She was the Ferrol Sams Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Mercer University and was on the faculty of the low residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Pacific University. She was Associate Professor, and taught in the MFA Creative Writing Program during the spring semesters, 1993 to 1997, at the University of Arkansas.
In May 2000, she was in residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's in Bellagio, Italy
She is a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.
Firekeeper was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books Published in 1994, was one of five finalists for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1994, and received the Natalie Ornish Poetry Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.
Song of the World Becoming contains all of Rogers' poems previously published in her books through 2001, 40 new poems, and line and title indexes. It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was named an Editor's Choice, Top of the List by Booklist.
Ms. Rogers is the mother of renowned materials scientist Professor John A. Rogers, currently at Northwestern University.

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

In 2018 Rogers received a special John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry.
She has received two NEA Grants, 1982 and 1988, a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1984–85, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 1991 and a Lannan Literary Awards for Poetry in 2005.
Her poems were selected for publication in Best Spiritual Writing for 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2010 editions.
Her poetry appeared in The Best American Poetry of 1996 selected by Adrienne Rich, and The Best American Poetry of 2009, selected by David Wagoner.
She received five Pushcart Prizes Best of the Small Presses 1984, 1985, 1989, 1992 and 1999 editions.
Two Prairie Schooner Strousse Awards were won in 1993 and 1996.
The Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest was awarded in 1981.
Poetry awarded her poems the Tietjens Prize in 1981, the Hokin Prize in 1982, and the Bock Prize in 1998.
She was the 1987 poet in residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH.
She was a judge for the National Poetry Series in 1999 and 2004, and co-poetry editor with Carl Phillips for the 2003 Pushcart Prize XXVII, Best of the Small Presses.
She was in residency at the Rockefeller's International Conference and Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, May, 2000.

Books

', the Milwaukee Zoo's permanent exhibit of 54 signs containing lines of poetry installed throughout the zoo opened on June 19, 2010.
Pattiann Rogers was the Zoo's honorary poet and curator for the exhibit, which was produced in collaboration with the Milwaukee Public Library, the , along with the Milwaukee County Zoo. Pattiann Rogers on the project:
' A story on The Language of Conservation in the , the Zoological Society's Newsletter.
A Terrain.org article about the project written by Pattiann Rogers: . A of the poetry installations at the zoo.
Address to the Zoo:
, Jane Preston, Editor; Sandra Alcosser, Lee Briccetti, Dr. John Fraser, Dr. Dan Wharton, Executive Editors; Poets House, New York City, NY, 2013.
Pattiann Rogers worked with sculptor of Public Art Associates to create this bench along the in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, at the base of Pikes Peak. It is a 4' x 15' concrete, stone and ceramic tile bench meant to withstand the elements for many years. The poems by Pattiann Rogers are on the tile pieces interspersed around the bench meant to be read at various angles of an oncoming potential reader. is a nice description of the bench with pictures by Lauren Carroll. about the trails and projects around the Pikes Peak area.
of the bench.
, presents photographs and text on five different poetry trails installed in five different locations in the U.S.. One of the five sections describes the goals and installations of the Milwaukee County Zoo signs and photographs. The four other sections contain descriptions and goals written by those who installed each trail. World Literature Today, January-February, 2013, Volume 87, Number 1, Editor Daniel Simon, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

Sowell Collection

The Sowell Collection at Texas Tech University acquired the unique papers of Pattiann Rogers and have made them available for public viewing.
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Jellema, Rod, ', essay by Rod Jellema, Innisfree Poetry Journal, www.innisfreepoetry.org, Innisfree 28, 2018
Kelley, Tina,
', Poetry Foundation, June 21, 2017
Brachman, Jo, "Cosmology's Celebration: An Interview with Pattiann Rogers", Terminus Magazine, Issue 13, 2016, published by School of Literature, Media and Communication and Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen Colleges
Rogers, Pattiann, ', World Literature Today, January-February, 2013, Volume 87, Number 1
Johnston, Gorden,
', Georgia Review - This interview also appears in its entirety in by Pattiann Rogers)
Doyle, Brian, Poems that Possess Me like New Music in the Blood: An Interview with Pattiann Rogers, , a Journal of the Arts and Religion, Center for Religious Humanism, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle WA. - This interview also appears in its entirety in by Pattiann Rogers)
Perry, Carolyn and Zade, Wayne, ', The Missouri Review, Volume 32, Number 4, Winter 2009
Gailey Jeannine Hall,
', Poets & Writers, June 30, 2008
Josephine Pallos, ', The Gettysburg Review, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, Vol. 15, Number 1, Spring, 2002
Elliott, David,
Praise is a Generative Act,' A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers,'' Tampa Review, Spring, l999
Seyburn, Patty, "Interview with Pattiann Rogers," Gulf Coast, U. of Houston, Houston, TX, Spring, l997
Walker, Casey, "Pattiann Rogers, an Interview and Poetry," Wild Duck Review, April, l997
Whitehouse, Shelia, "An Interview with Pattiann Rogers," South Carolina Review, Fall, l992
Seale, Jan Epton, “Interview with Pattiann Rogers,” Concho River Review, Spring, l991
Bryan, Sharon, "Interview: Pattiann Rogers," River City Review, Spring, l990
McCann, Richard, "", Iowa Review Volume 17, no 2, Spring/Summer 1987 - This interview also appears in its entirety in by Pattiann Rogers)

Reviews of Published Work (A Partial Listing)

Reviews of Quickening Fields, published 2017
Reviews of Holy Heathen Rhapsody, 2013
Reviews of Wayfare, published 2008
Review of Firekeeper, Selected Poems, Revised and Expanded Edition, published 2005
Brachman, Jo, All There Is----Pattiann Rogers' Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems, Terminus Magazine, Issue 13, 2016, published by School of Literature, Media and Communication and Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College
Review of Generations, published 2003
Reviews of Song of the World Becoming, New and Collected Poems, 1981 - 2001, published 2001
Reviews of Firekeeper, New and Selected Poems, published 1994
Reviews of Splitting and Binding, published 1989
Reviews of Legendary Performance, published 1987
Reviews of The Tattooed Lady in the Garden, published 1986
Reviews of The Expectations of Light, published 1981

Anthologies Containing Rogers' Poems