Category Archives: Poetry

Let the Bucket Down, issue 3

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Patrick Doud

There was a lovely event at Gloucester Writers Center for the new issue of Joseph Torra’s excellent magazine, and Greg Cook was there.

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The World As It Is

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Patrick Doud

A poem in the new number of The Battersea Review https://thebatterseareview.com/component/content/article/85-back-issue-content/205-patrick-doud  

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Gull

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Patrick Doud

In the city of the gulls, along with all the other pieces hatched by gulls clamoring sunrise law, there came you, largely a wound, to the courtyard of brick. Baby with a wormy wing, thinglet never to fledge, despite all … Continue reading →

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January 22nd, Gloucester Writers Center

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Patrick Doud

I want to say something briefly about my poems, Gabrielle’s drawings, and why we are putting them together tonight. There are the fragile, doomed arrangements of everything, despite intuitions of another, everlasting world that touches this one, that enfolds us … Continue reading →

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Persistent Images

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Patrick Doud
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Gabrielle Barzaghi

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Patrick Doud

This past winter, Cape Ann Museum exhibited a show of Gabrielle Barzaghi’s drawings. Her work is all visionary landscapes and nightmare fantasy situations, and I was immediately taken with it. Gabrielle will soon be showing a huge new work at Trident Gallery in Gloucester. The … Continue reading →

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Happy Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Patrick Doud

Here’s a poem for the day from my book The Man in Green, published back in 1996 by Lee Chapman’s First Intensity Press. The Pumpkins at Panther Lake Another ambivalent landscape, October a boy hangs a dummy from a flagpole into dark … Continue reading →

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The Publick Universal Friend, Mary Tammer: sources of The Mornith War

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Patrick Doud

  Across the entire breadth of New York State, undeviating, a hilly strip scarcely twenty-five miles wide invites the world’s wonder. It is a broad psychic highway, a thoroughfare of the occult whose great stations number the mystic seven. For … Continue reading →

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Mourning doves, Lorine Niedecker: sources of The Mornith War

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Patrick Doud

The Mornith War is full of things that got my attention at the time I was writing. Events in my neighborhood, my world … books I was reading … my nightly dreams and nightmares … whatever parts of my experience … Continue reading →

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More on war

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Patrick Doud

Trouble discussed briefly in a recent post on the The Mornith War has me thinking about an unfinished poem of mine from around 2004. I looked at it again this morning for the first time in years, wondered why I never thought of it while writing Mornith, and … Continue reading →

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