Pattiann Rogers

Pattiann Rogers (born 1940) is an American poet who has published 11 books and received numerous awards, grants and fellowships.

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 and is currently on the faculty of the low residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. She lives in Colorado with her husband and has two sons.

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Rogers has published these books:

Firekeeper, Expanded and Revised Edition (Milkweed, 2005)
Generations, (Penguin, 2004)
Song of the World Becoming, New and Collected Poems, 1981 - 2001, (Milkweed Editions) This book contains all of Rogers' poems in previously published books, 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.
A Covenant of Seasons, a collaboration with the artist Joellyn Duesberry (Hudson Hills Press, 1998)
The Dream of the Marsh Wren, Writing as Reciprocal Creation, (Milkweed Editions, 1999) in the Credo Series
Eating Bread and Honey, (Milkweed Editions, 1997)
Firekeeper, New and Selected Poems (1994); chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books Published in 1994, was one of five finalists for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (given by the Academy of American Poets) in 1994, and received the Natalie Ornish Poetry Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.
Geocentric (Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1993)
Splitting and Binding (Wesleyan University Press, 1989)
Legendary Performance (Ion Press, 1987)
The Tattooed Lady in the Garden (Wesleyan University Press, 1986)
The Expectations of Light (Princeton University Press, 1981)

Her poems have appeared in these anthologies;

Rogers has received two NEA Grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2005 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and a 1993 Lannan Literary Fellowship. Her poems have been awarded the Tietjens Prize for Poetry, the Hokin Prize, and the Bock Prize for Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest, the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner, in 1993 and 1996, five Pushcart Prizes, and an appearance in The Best American Poetry of 1996, edited by Adrienne Rich. In 2004 she was judge for the National Poetry Series.

Rogers has held these academic positions:

Taught at the University of Texas
Taught at the University of Montana
Taught at Washington University in St. Louis
Mercer University as the Ferrol Sams Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
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 Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy
She is currently on the faculty of the low residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR.