Patrick’s poems have appeared in many journals and websites, including Smartish Pace, The Pennsylvania Review, The Connecticut Review, Astropoetica, The Evansville Review, Connecticut River Review, and The Spoon River Poetry Review and is scheduled to appear in The Furnace Review among others. He has read his poetry in Evansville, Indiana, and Indianapolis at several venues. He is also the author of the bestselling The NOOK Book.
You can hear him read his poem “Where Waters Meet” on The Connecticut Review’s radio program Writers in the Attic hosted by Dr. Meredith Clermont-Ferrand. Patrick was one of the featured poets in INTake’s April 12, 2008 issue.
He is the structured authoring program manager for Pearson Education, an educational publisher with offices in Indianapolis. Patrick also teaches business report writing at IUPUI. Patrick lives with his wife, Gina, and their dogs, Riley and Kennedy, in Westfield, a suburb north of Indianapolis.
Patrick has recently completed the first in an ongoing series of science fiction mysteries centered around Executive Inspector Dreksul Pierce. Look for more information about in the future.
In addition to other poems, Patrick is currently seeking a theater to perform his verse drama titled Rasputin and is working on a new verse drama surrounding the events of December 13, 1943, in Kalavryta, Greece (Wikipedia’s article).