Patrick Rosal

Patrick Rosal is author of five full-length poetry collections including The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems, which was named one of the best books of 2021 by The Boston Globe. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Research Scholar program, the Civitella Ranieri Residency, and the NJ State Council for the Arts. He is the inaugural campus Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden, where he is a Professor of English. A winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, he has performed as poet and musician in Europe, Africa, Asia, and throughout the Americas at venues that include Lincoln Center, NJPAC, the Cabrillo housing projects for agricultural workers, and Filipino Community Hall in Delano— comprising a writing and performance career spanning more than twenty years.