Pattie McCarthy

Pattie McCarthy (born 1971) is an American poet and educator.

Biography McCarthy completed undergraduate work at Towson University and received her MA in creative writing from Temple University in Philadelphia in 1998.

McCarthy's poetry has been noted for its use of medieval subjects, references, and imagery, in addition to "re-visioning historical texts and re-voicing what has suffered omission from sanctioned history." More recent work has focused on tensions between public and private selves and day-to-day domesticities. When interviewed, McCarthy has listed Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Cole Swensen, and Anne Waldman as influential to her own work and style.

McCarthy lives just outside of Philadelphia with her husband, poet Kevin Varrone, and three children.

Awards and honors McCarthy was a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 2011. In 2013, she was an artist resident at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Nova Scotia.

Works Books of poetry (Apogee Press, 2002) OCLC 49612046 Verso (Apogee Press, 2004) OCLC 56663600 Table Alphabetical of Hard Words (Apogee Press, 2010) OCLC 759790659 Marybones (Apogee Press, 2012) OCLC 826737840 Nulls (Horse Less Press, 2014) OCLC 876350593 Quiet Book (Apogee Press, 2016) OCLC 953678346 Wifthing (Apogee Press, 2021) ISBN 9781733137522 OCLC 1230218946 Chapbooks Octaves (ixnay press, 1998) OCLC 41899445 Choragus (Potes & Poets Press, 1998) OCLC 41162890 alibi (that is : elsewhere) (Duration Press, 2003) L&O (Little Red Leaves Press, 2011) Domestic Cryptography Survey II (Dusie Kollektiv, 2013) scenes from the lives of my parents (Bloof Books, 2013) OCLC 881183162 (WinteRed Press, 2014) Nova Scotia (Dusie Kollektiv, 2014) fifteen genre scenes (eth press, 2014) worrywort [with Jenn McCreary] (Little Red Leaves Press, 2014) OCLC 925832043 x y z && (Ahsahta Press, 2015) margerykempething (eth press, 2017) qweyne wifthing (eth press, 2017)