Pattiann Rogers (born 1940) is an American poet,[1] and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
She was associate professor, and taught in the MFA Creative Writing Program during the spring semesters, 1993 to 1997, at the University of Arkansas.
It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was named an Editor's Choice, Top of the List by Booklist.
She was a judge for the National Poetry Series in 1999 and 2004, and co-poetry editor with Carl Phillips for the 2003 Pushcart Prize XXVII, Best of the Small Presses.
A story on The Language of Conservation in the June 2010 issue of Wild Things, the Zoological Society's Newsletter.
Address to the Zoo: 10001 West Bluemound Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226-4383 The Language of Conservation, Poetry in Library and Zoo Collaborations, Jane Preston, Editor; Sandra Alcosser, Lee Briccetti, Dr. John Fraser, Dr. Dan Wharton, Executive Editors; Poets House, New York City, NY, 2013.
www.poetshouse.org[10] Rogers worked with sculptor Steve Wood of Public Art Associates to create this bench along the American Discovery Trail in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, at the base of Pikes Peak.
The poems by Pattiann Rogers are on the tile pieces interspersed around the bench meant to be read at various angles of an oncoming potential reader.
[11] The Sowell Collection at Texas Tech University acquired the unique papers of Pattiann Rogers and have made them available for public viewing.
Brachman, Jo, "Cosmology's Celebration: An Interview with Pattiann Rogers", Terminus Magazine, Issue 13, 2016, published by School of Literature, Media and Communication and Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen Colleges
Rogers, Pattiann, Finding Poems Under the Open Sky, World Literature Today, January–February, 2013, Volume 87, Number 1
Perry, Carolyn and Zade, Wayne, A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers, The Missouri Review, Volume 32, Number 4, Winter 2009
Walker, Casey, "Pattiann Rogers, an Interview and Poetry," Wild Duck Review, April, 1997
Seale, Jan Epton, “Interview with Pattiann Rogers,” Concho River Review, Spring, 1991
Review of Firekeeper, Selected Poems, Revised and Expanded Edition, published 2005 Brachman, Jo, All There Is----Pattiann Rogers' Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems, Terminus Magazine, Issue 13, 2016, published by School of Literature, Media and Communication and Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College