Patricia Fargnoli

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Patricia Fargnoli, the New Hampshire Poet Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009, is the author of four books and two chapbooks of poetry. Her newest book, Then, Something, won the ForeWord Poetry Book of the Year Award Silver Award, the Shelia Mooton Book Award of the New England Poetry Club, and an Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Awards. Her fifth collection, Duties of the Spirit, won the New Hampshire Jane Kenyon Literary Book Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry and was a semifinalist for the Glasgow Prize. Her first book, Necessary Light, was awarded the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award.
“Pat”, a retired social worker, has been the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship. She has been on the residence faculty of The Frost Place Poetry Festival, and has taught privately at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and in the Lifelong Learning program of Keene State College. She was the recipient of an honorary BFA from The NH Institute of Art, has won the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and 6 Pushcart nominations. Twice a semifinalist for the Discovery, The Nation Awards, she has published widely in literary journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, Alaska Quarterly, and the Massachusetts Review.