Patricia's work can be found on-line and in journals: Poetz.com, Rogue Scholars, Poets Wear Prada, Best Poem, Big City Lit, The Toronto Quarterly, Word Poetry Salad, Marymark Press, Ditch Poetry, Lips, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Clockwise Cat, Luciole Press, Eviscerator Heaven 4, Flutter, Up the Staircase, Battered Suitcase, 6S, Beatnik Cowboy, Times Square Shout Out, New Verse News, Inertia, Symmetry Pebbles, FLRev, Kritya, Soul to Soul, Mobius the Poetry Magazine, Clwn Wr, Maintenant 4, Mad Hatters' Review, Inscribed, Live Magazine, Tamarind, Riverfront, Soul Fountain, Nomad's Choir, the Park Slope Poetry Project's Erato, SOS ABC NO RIO's Stained Sheets, Poet-To-Poet's Medicinal Purposes, Asbestos, Where You Live, What Happens Next, and more (Please check her publications page). She is the author of her first book, Journey to the Center of My Mind ( Rogue Scholars Press), which was showcased at Poet's House in 2007. She's in several anthologies: The Ice Road Poems, edited by Phil Linz (Fierce Grace Press 2007), The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, South by Southeast, vol.15 #2 and #3, Evie Ivy's Dinner with the Muse, a Green Pavilion Poetry Anthology (2009), Deborah Simpson’s anthology, Expressions ( http://www.deborahsimpson.org/published-books.html), Nicky Jones’ Copeland Book’s Love Theme anthology (2009) http://www.copelandbooks.co.uk/blog/index.asp, The Spam Poetry Game designed by Cecil Touchon, the first volume of The Best of Stain (2009) and THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II (Meritage Press) http://www.meritagepress.com/haynaku2.htm. In 2006, Christine Leahy from the Park Slope Reader interviewed her.
Patricia has featured at numerous venues including the Telephone Bar, the Galapagos Art Space, The Huntington Poetry Barn (Huntington, NY) The Colony Arts Center (Woodstock, NY), Robin's Bookstore (Philadelphia, PA), Poets and Angels Reading Series (East Brunswick, NJ), The Carrozini von Buhler Gallery, the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, the Cornelia Street Cafe,the Phoenix Reading Series, the Bowery Poetry Club, A Gathering of the Tribes, Bluestockings Bookstore, the Nightingale Lounge, the Moroccan Star, Stark!!! and the Back Fence.
She was interviewed by Louis Reyes Rivera on WBAI's Perspective on September 3 with Juanita Torrence-Thompson and Vivian Warfield.
She hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets, formally the Park Slope Poetry Society, at the Park Plaza Restaurant in Brooklyn Heights and at Linger Cafe and Lounge in Boerum Hill and is the editor-in chief of the annual Brownstone Poets Anthology. She was one of the hosts for the SOS ABC NO RIO Sunday Open Series on the Lower East Side.
For Partricia, poetry allows the imagination to guide the hand in writing down the voice from within. Poetry is a safe flight into her darkest moments and other forbidden territories with her at the controls. By using words on paper, they become puppets. Through these puppets, she can express any deep-rooted fear or desire without submitting herself to embarrassing conversation. She prefers to get things down on paper as a catharsis for the soul. These emotions and ideas, whether they are dark or light are beautified and the afterimages that they produce are rewarding and uplifting. Please share her experience and take a journey to where the intelligence of the heart can contemplate the complexities of the mind.
