Dayna Patterson

We’ll also be holding an anniversary reading via Zoom on Saturday, December 13, at 9 a.m. Pacific. Register here!

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Thanks for reading, and here’s to the next 10 years!

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Editor-in-Chief

Thank you to all the mentors, editors, & friends who’ve helped me refine these poems, especially Bruce Beasley, Elizabeth Vignali, Brenda Miller, Jory Mickelson, Jennifer Bullis, Kami Westhoff, Kelly Magee, Dee Dee Chapman, Frances Badgett, Amber Asbjornsen, Amy Anderson Guerra, & Cindy Hollenbeck.

Our Lady of Thread is a hybrid collection that pushes the boundaries of what a poetry collection can be; it includes embroidered collages, stitched poems, and a QR code that links readers to a videopoem.

Thank you, Signature Books, for the continued faith in my work.

In this collection, I weave together three main threads: 1) poems in the voice of God the Mother; 2) prayer poems in the Catholic “Our Lady” tradition; and 3) poems about mothering my own two kids in the Anthropocene.

With all the hard and heavy and heart-breaking news, I’m taking a sliver of a moment to celebrate. My third full-length collection, Our Lady of Thread, will be coming to a bookstore near you in 2027.

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This week's Poetry + Fungus feature is Jory Mickelson's ALL THIS DIVIDE (Spuyten Dyvil, 2024).

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This week's Poetry + Fungus feature is Sylvia Plath's THE COLLECTED POEMS (Harper Perennial, 2018; originally pubbed 1960).
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This Insatiable August — Signature Books August is an insatiable month. Whether it is a dry spell, drought, or simply parched with want, or filled with thunderstorm, deluge, destruction of property or ideals, it is the place of scarcity or...

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Transitory Grounded in protest and solidarity, Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s Isabella Gardner Award-winning Transitory is a collection of elegies memorializing 46 transgender and gender-nonconforming people murdered i...

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This week's Poetry + Fungus feature is Subhaga Crystal Bacon's TRANSITORY (Boa Editions, 2023).
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Friends, I'd love to see you at this Strong Waters + SpeakEasy event on Sunday. I'll be sharing a poem, along with Bruce Beasley, Susan Alexander, Jennifer Bullis, & Luther Allen. I hope you can come! Yay, poetry!
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Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali — Alice James Books Sarah Ghazal Ali The 2022 Alice James Award Editor’s Choice “In this expansive debut collection, Ali draws from the Quran and the Bible as vehicles for a deeper consideration of the intersections o...

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It's the 1-year book birthday for O LADY, SPEAK AGAIN! My gratitude to Signature Books & all the lit journals that published these poems, the folks who wrote book reviews & hosted me for readings, the people who reached out with encouragement & congratulations. Thank you.

Textile Art (All prices include shipping | Prices below | U.S. addresses only) Embroidered Broadside: "O is the Sound of Tragedy""O is the Sound of Tragedy" broadside, signed and embroidered in various colors. 7 ...

To celebrate O LADY, SPEAK AGAIN's 1-year book birthday, I'm releasing limited edition broadsides, signed & embroidered, of 2 poems from the book: "O is the Sound of Tragedy" & "Juliet Ode," originally published in AGNI
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It's the 1-year book birthday for O LADY, SPEAK AGAIN! My gratitude to Signature Books & all the lit journals that published these poems, the folks who wrote book reviews & hosted me for readings, the people who reached out with encouragement & congratulations. Thank you.

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Pre-Order: Coachella Elegy by Christian Gullette Book will ship on July 1 (release date) Identified as one of the Poetry Books to Read in 2024 (LitHub), and winner of the 2023 Trio Award, Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy explores the queer promi...

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