patricia corbus

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Patricia Corbus grew up in Sarasota Florida, in her parents’ shell shop, The Nautilus. She graduated from Agnes Scott College, and holds a Master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She has loved poetry for as long as she can remember.

winner of 2015

off the grid Poetry prize


Patricia Corbus is a brilliant, virtuoso poet. Her rich linguistic palette channels an adventurous and fabular intelligence that reminds us of poets like Stevens, Ruefle and Ashbery.”
— Tony Hoagland, author of Application for Release from the Dream
In language that is both accessible and vivid, Patricia Corbus’s Finestra’s Window vigorously leaps between myth, fantasy, the past, and the very present, mortal, human world.
— Lynn Emanuel, author of The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected

Finestra’s Window

Poems by Patricia Corbus

Patricia Corbus’s starting point is home, where “in pearly clouds / called fog we sit / on unseen chairs / …We stay, we go.” When she goes, there are no limits to her flights, which, for example, may take her to “the vast loneliness of fledgling planets, / bitter-smelling rocks in empty rivers, / not decaying in patience like houses or bodies / slowly sinking—but firming, moons jockeying / like China juggled out of a cupboard.”

winner of 2015

off the grid prize