The lush, lexically gorgeous and emotionally complex poems of Little- Known Operas guide us through the terrain of love, sex, same-sex marriage, illness, death, and art.

Former poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, and author of four books of poems, most recently Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books 2019), Patrick Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place and an associate editor of Poetry International. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, Slate, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other journals. Donnelly’s awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award. He teaches at Smith College.