Poet Profile

Patricia Carragon

Patricia Carragon received a 2025 Best of the Net nomination for her haiku, “Cherry Blossoms” from Poets Wear Prada. She is the editor of the new online journal, Sense and Sensibility Haiku. Alien Buddha Press published her novel Angel Fire in 2020. Books from Poets Wear Prada: Meowku (2019) and The Cupcake Chronicles (2017). Innocence was published by Finishing Line Press (2017). She hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology.

Awards and Other Honors:

Nominations include Sundress Publications’ Annual Best of the Net for Poetry (2025): “Cherry Blossoms” (Poets Wear Prada); Pushcart Prize for Poetry (2024): “Wild Is the Wind” (Poets Wear Prada’s Rainbow Project); Pushcart Prize for Poetry (2021): “faucet waterfall” (Bear Creek Haiku); Sundress Publications’ Annual Best of the Net for Fiction (2020): “What Has to Happen Next” (Al-Khemia Poetica); Pushcart Prize for Fiction (2018): “Saturday After Midnight, August 5, 2023” from The Cupcake Chronicles (Poets Wear Prada); and great weather for MEDIA’s Poem of the Week winner (April 2020): “Paris the Beautiful.” She was a Long Island Light Poetry Competition finalist (2016) and received a Poets & Writers grant for a Fort Greene Poetry Festival performance in Brooklyn (April 2022).

Books Published:

Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005); Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010); Innocence (Finishing Line Press, 2017); The Cupcake Chronicles (Poets Wear Prada, 2017); Meowku (Poets Wear Prada, 2019); Angel Fire (Alien Buddha Press, 2020).

early October
trees by train station
wait for change

bare feet
encounter Coney Island sand
feeling the burn

helicopter seeds
take-off from local maples
one lands on my nose

along train route
hidden messages
in spray-painted curves

war cannot stop
the sun from painting
rainbows

baby maple leaf
yellow and brown
early menopause

Credits:

“early October” – The Solitary Daisy Issue 35, Newcomer's Edition 2024; “bare feet” – Cold Moon Journal, August 27, 2024; ”helicopter seeds” – 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, August 16, 2024; ”along train route” – Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, July 13, 2024; ”war cannot stop” – Shadow Pond Journal , May 10, 2024; ”baby maple leaf” - Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2023.