Patricia Clark is the author of The Canopy (2017, Terrapin Books), her fifth book of poetry. She teaches in the Writing Department at Grand Valley State University where she is also the university's poet in residence. Find her recent work in Alaska Quarterly Review, Smartish Pace, New Letters, North American Review, and Blackbird. She was the poet laureate of Grand Rapids, MI from 2005-2007, and she has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland.