UNC Writers’ Conference Reading: Veronica Patterson

The University of Northern Colorado Writers’ Conference is dedicated to promoting cultural creativity and diversity through free public readings and performances by established writers and artists. By promoting conversations between the writers and their audience, these events focus on crossing the boundaries between campus and community, between writer and reader, and between individual and communal experiences.

Veronica Patterson’s full-length poetry collections include How to Make a Terrarium, Swan, What Shores?, Thresh & Hold, & it had rained, and Sudden White Fan. She has also published two chapbooks—This Is the Strange Part and Maneuvers: Battle of the Little Bighorn Poems. She lives in Loveland, Colorado, and teaches for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She received two Individual Artists grants from the Colorado Council on the humanities. Her poems have been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize, and have been selected for Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily. In April 2019, she was named Loveland, Colorado’s first Poet Laureate.