Casey Patrick

Poet | Editor | Teaching Artist

Recent Publications

“Fern.” Best New Poets 2024, selected by Anders Carlson-Wee.

artist collaborations

“I wanted first to tell you how long it’s been, but of course.” Selected as part of Red Wing Arts’s 2024 Poet Artist Collaboration. Displayed in the Red Wing Arts Depot Gallery from April 12–June 9 with accompanying artwork by Kurt Schulzetenberg.

“Medusa Reflects.” Selected as part of Red Wing Arts’s 2022 Poet Artist Collaboration. Displayed in the Red Wing Arts Depot Gallery from April 14–May 15, with accompanying artwork by Jacob Yeates.

Limited edition broadside print of lines from “Season of Want,” originally published in Ruminate Magazine. A collaboration with Streetcorner Letterpress.


Previously published

Ordinary.” Radar Poetry, winter 2021.

“Season of Want.” Ruminate Magazine, June 2020. Print.

“Migration” (reprint). Saint Paul Almanac: Resistance and Resilience, fall 2019. Print.

“Recollection.” The Massachusetts Review, spring 2019. Print.

"Female Pain, Origin Of." Runner-up for the 2018 Pinch Literary Awards, selected by Maggie Smith. The Pinch, fall 2018. Print.

"Free Knife Sharpening." The Pinch, fall 2018. Print.

"Echo." Green Mountains Review, August 2017. Online.

"AIR TEMPERATURE 82 AIR TEMPERATURE 82 CALM CALM SWELL." RHINO, April 2017. Print.

"Migration." IMPRESSIONS Poetry Project, sponsored by the Saint Paul Almanac. Broadside displayed on Minneapolis and St. Paul MetroTransit buses and trains.

"CALLING ITASCA WE MUST BE ON YOU BUT CANNOT SEE YOU BUT GAS IS RUNNING LOW." Passages North, Issue 38, February 2017. Print.

"Echo (II)." Anthropoid Folk issue, Folklore folio, December 2016. Online.

"Echo (III)." Juked, September 2016. Online.

"Theory: Emergency Water Landing." The Journal, Issue 40.3, summer 2016. Print.

"WE ARE RUNNING NORTH AND SOUTH" and "Amelia Earhart Makes a List of Regrets." The Adroit Journal, Issue 17, summer 2016. Online.

"Theory: Intentional Water Landing" and "Three Attempts at Translation." The Boiler Journal, spring 2016. Online.

"A Few Months Ahead of Her First Nervous Breakdown, Zelda Fitzgerald Considers Degas' The Ballet Class.Grist: The Journal for Writers, Issue 9, spring 2016. Print.

"HAVE NOT HEARD EARHART SIGNALS UP TO THIS TIME BUT SEE NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN AS PLANE IS STILL ABOUT 1,000 MILES AWAY PERIOD." Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Vol 2.5, February 2016. Online.

"After Last Call, Amelia's Father Visits Her Empty Grave, 1937"; "Amelia's Sister Re-Visits the Fairgrounds, 1944" and "Amelia's Husband Visits the Newsroom after Midnight, 1938." burntdistrict, Vol 4.1, summer 2015.

"Amelia's Ghost Visits the Ocean." Pleiades, Vol 35.2, summer 2015.

"How to Say Home" and "Tectonics." Midwestern Gothic, issue 18, summer 2015. Print.

"Fragmented Summers" and "Relative." Superstition Review, Issue 14, fall 2014. Online.

"If you want an example of patience," Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, fall 2014. Online.