Patrick James Dunagan has lived in San Francisco for over twenty-five years and works as E-resources Assistant in Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco. His latest books include City Bird and other poems (City Lights) and Reading Writing Reading: Essays Reviews & Notes (Lithic press). He recently edited Roots & Routes: Poetics at New College (alongside Marina Lazzara & Nicholas James Whittington) and David Meltzer’s Rock Tao.

He earned his joint MA/MFA at the now-defunct New College of California poetics program on Valencia St, where he studied with Tom Clark, Adam Cornford, Gloria Frym, Joanne Kyger, George Mattingly, and David Meltzer. He wrote his MA thesis on the work of poet Joel Oppenheimer. In 2011 Post Apollo Press published his first full length book "There Are People Who Think That Painters Shouldn't Talk": A GUSTONBOOK. He is author of The Duncan Era: One Poet’s Cosmology (2016). After the Banished was published by Empty Bowl Press in 2022. He regularly writes for Rain Taxi Review of Books.

Patrick’s first review is forthcoming.