Father's Philosophy, 2nd Ed.
Patrick grew up on a small lake in the white birch, green pinewoods of Northwestern Wisconsin. Son of an English professor-farmer and a waitress-philosopher, he was born in River Falls, Wisconsin in 1967. Patrick teaches at the Center for English as a Second Language at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has had poems published in Bellowing Ark, Byline Magazine, California Quarterly, Free Verse, Istanbul Literary Review, The Rockford Review, The Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar and many other journals in both the States and abroad.