NEWS
THE BLUE HOUSE received the 2024 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation! From the judges’ citation: “Patty Crane’s translations in The Blue House brilliantly present one of the greatest poetic voices of the past sixty years…full of cinematic imagery and wisdom...” Click image to order/learn more.
Interview with Dennis Maloney in Rain Taxi Review (Spring 2024)…
Interview on Radio Boise’s The Poetry Show, January 7 & 14, 2024
Patty’s essay On Translation & Influence (LitHub, October 27, 2023)
Jared M. Pollen’s astute essay: THE BLUE HOUSE: For the Left Hand Alone (Poetry Foundation, October 30, 2023)
Patty has two poems in this beautiful anthology, LEANING TOWARD LIGHT: Poems for Gardens & the Hands that Tend Them, edited by Tess Taylor (Storey, August 2023).
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 7 pm (EST): Hybrid Reading - THE BLUE HOUSE
with Kit Schluter & intro by C. Francis Fisher
Grolier Poetry Bookshop
Cambridge, MA
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Sunday, September 22, 2024, 2 pm: Reading - Poetry at the Manse
with Mary Bonina, Patty Crane & Thomas Olivieri
New England Poetry Club
The Old Manse, Concord, MA
Wednesday, July 10, 2024, 7:30 pm ET: Virtual Reading - THE BLUE HOUSE
Patty Crane & Steven Cramer
Where the Universe Is
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 8 pm ET: Vermont College of Fine Arts
Virtual Alumnx Reading Series
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 7 pm: Reading - THE BLUE HOUSE
Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
Sunday, April 28, 2024, 3 pm: Reading - THE BLUE HOUSE
Point Reyes Books, Point Reyes Station, CA
Friday, March 8, 2024, 7 pm: Reading & Music!
Spoken Words with Patty Crane & Music with Sarah Stockwell-Arthen
Friday Night Cafe, The Village Church, Cummington, MA
Thursday, February 8, 2024, 1 pm: Book Signing - THE BLUE HOUSE
Copper Canyon Press Booth #1223-1225
AWP Conference & Bookfair
Kansas City, MO
Thursday, February 8, 2024, 7 pm: Reading - LEANING TOWARD LIGHT
AWP Conference & Bookfair
Linda Hall Arboretum, Kansas City, MO
Sunday, January 7, 7:00 - 7:30 pm (Eastern Time): THE BLUE HOUSE
Part 1: Interview
Radio Boise’s The Poetry Show
(with Daphne Stanford)
Sunday, January 14, 7:00 - 7:30 pm (Eastern Time): THE BLUE HOUSE
Part 2: Interview
Radio Boise’s The Poetry Show
(with Daphne Stanford)
Friday, November 17, 2023, 6 pm: Book Launch for THE BLUE HOUSE: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer
The Bookstore, Lenox, MA
Sun, September 17, 2023 at 4:00 - 6:00 pm: In a Green Shade: An Evening of Poems in the Garden at Long Hill
Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them
Long Hill, Beverly, MA
Wed, September 6, 2023 at 7:30 pm: Leaning Toward Light Brooklyn Book Launch:
Greenlight Books, Brooklyn, MA
Wed, July 20, 2022 at 5:30 - 6:30 pm: Arts Alive! A Reading with Six Berkshire Poets
Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA
Sat, April 22, 2023 at 4:00 - 5:30 pm: Inspired Berkshires Poetry Reading
Stockbridge Library, Stockbridge, MA
Sat, April 9, 2022 at 2:00 - 4:00 pm: Panelist
Interfacing: Poetry, Mental Illness & Mental Health
Stockbridge, MA
Moderator: Kate Daniels
Panelists: Owen Lewis, M.D., Richard Berlin, M.D., Patty Crane, R.N., Hannah Fries