Patrick Rosal

Biography

Patrick Rosal is an interdisciplinary artist and author. He has earned fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Senior Research Program. A professor of English and founding codirector of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden, he continues to design small-scale public-art projects through the ad hoc Institute for Contemporary Collaborative Imagining. His newest collection, The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems (Persea, 2021), is forthcoming. 

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POETRY / Spring 2021

Gift

By Patrick Rosal

When you hold
a slice 

of freshly cut
red melon 

to my lips,
I drink 

POETRY / Spring 2021

La Época en que Hay Olvido

By Patrick Rosal

Sometimes I enter the small chambers of the God of Forgetting 
and take my place at his feet 
and kneel 
and bow my head.

POETRY / Spring 2021

Sleeping Animal

By Patrick Rosal

From here I can see the children
running across the long field 

for no other reason
than
they are fast.