- Patricia Dobler
Patricia Dobler (1939—2004) was an American
poet .Born Patricia Averdick in
Middletown, Ohio , she completed her BA inpolitical science at St. Xavier College in Chicago, then married the writerBruce Dobler in 1961. She moved, as the spouse of a writer and professor, toIowa City ;Exeter, New Hampshire ;Putney, Vermont ;Anchorage, Alaska ;Tucson, Arizona ;El Paso, Texas ; and finally Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania . There she herself began writing after raising two daughters, Stephanie and Lisa, completing her MFA at theUniversity of Pittsburgh , where she studied poetry withEd Ochester ,Lynn Emanuel , andLouis Simpson . In 1986, poetMaxine Kumin selected her book as the winner of theBrittingham Prize in Poetry from theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison . That same year she joined the faculty ofCarlow University and directed its Women's Creative Writing Center until her death. Dobler was also a popular leader of Carlow's nondegree writing workshop, Madwomen in the Attic. Her final book, "Collected Poems", was published posthumously by the Autumn House Press in 2005.She died
July 24 ,2004 at her home in Pittsburgh. She is interred in the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery in the city's Greenfield and Hazelwood neighborhoods.Works
* "Collected Poems", poetry (Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2005)
* "UXB", poetry (Pittsburgh: Mill Hunk Books, 1991)
* "Talking To Strangers", poetry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986)
* "Forget Your Life", poetry chapbook (Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 1982)References
*Bob Hoover (2005). [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04209/352457.stm Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Obituary of Patricia Dobler] . Retrieved April 18, 2006.
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