My approach to poetry is as varied as the impulses that push me into the chair to write. In some instances, I write to unlock deep strains that have run through me for decades. Other times I start a poem to trap a beautiful experience in amber."
Patrice Boyer Claeys grew up among the plain-spoken Pennsylvania Dutch. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Manchester, U.K. After years in publishing and PR, Patrice completed a Certificate in Poetry from the Writer's Studio of the University of Chicago and published her first full-length collection, Lovely Daughter of the Shattering (Kelsay Books, 2019). Her work has appeared in Aeolian Harp Anthology 5, Light: A Journal of Photography and Poetry, the Auroean, Nassau Review, and After Hours, among others, and is forthcoming in Glassworks, Pirene’s Fountain, The Passed Note, and Literary Mama. Her second collection, The Machinery of Grace, is due in 2020 from Kelsay Books. A member of Illinois State Poetry Society, Patrice thanks her writing group, Plumb Line Poets, for keeping her chiseling away. She was nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
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Contact Patrice--patriceclaeys@aol.com
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