Clare Rossini is the author of three collections of poetry: Lingo (The University of Akron Press, 2006); Winter Morning with Crow (University of Akron Press 1997), chosen by Donald Justice for the Akron Poetry Prize and one of two finalists for PEN's first Joyce Osterweil Award; and Selections from the Claudia Poems (Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, 1996), an art book edition.  Her poems and essays have appeared in a range of journals and anthologies, including Poetry, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Poets for a New Century, and the Best American Poetry; they have also been featured on NPR and the BBC.  At Trinity, she serves as  Artist-in-Residence in the English Department, teaching courses in creative writing and literature.  Since 2001, she has taught a Community Learning Initiative course which places Trinity students in a Hartford public school classroom.   Her scholarly interests include English, American, and world poetry; the imagination of place and eco-criticism; the history of science; folklore and folktales; the community cultural development movement; and community-based learning. She is currently working on a fourth book of poetry whose subjects include late-medieval science and global warming.

Rossini’s courses include "Art and Community," "Introduction to Poetry Writing," "Introduction to Creative Writing," "Advanced Poetry Writing," "Senior Poetry Workshop," "The Art of Confession," "O That Wild Pair: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson," and "Contemporary American Poetry."

Books:

• Rossini, Clare. Lingo. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press (2006).
• Rossini, Clare. Winter Morning with Crow.  Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press (1997).
• Selections from the Claudia Poems.  Minneapolis: Center for the Book Art, 1995.  (A book-art edition)

Selected publications of individual poems or groups of poems in journals and in anthologies since 2011:

• “The Great Chain of Being,” Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, ed. Melissa Tuckey (Athens: University of Georgia Press, upcoming in 2017).
• “Anatomy, Brief History of” and “The Man Transfused with the Blood of a Sheep,” upcoming in The Kenyon Review (2017).
• “Prologue to a Text.” Poetry Daily, March 7, 2016.
• “Prologue to a Text.” Southwest Review 101, no. 1 (Winter, 2016): 132-33.
• “The Song of the Dusky Seaside Sparrow,” “The Great Chain of Being,” “Manhattan Saturday.” Kenyon Review (May-June 2015): 59-61.
• “Solastalgia.” In The Plume Anthology of Poetry 3, ed. Daniel Lawless, 192-197 (Asheville, N.C: MadHat, Inc., 2015).
• “Life Before Birth, A Display.” Kenyon Review Weekend Read (July 10, 2015).
• “The Albino Squirrel.” Plume 17 (Jan. 2015).
• “Of Joseph Banks, Natural Historian” and “Johann Hurlinger, Who Walked on His Hands from Paris to Vienna, 1900.” Parnassus: Poetry in Review 33, no. 1&2 (2013).
• “Duet in Mud Season.” The Kenyon Review XXV, no. 4 (Fall 2013): 24.
• “Solastalgia,” The Plume Anthology of Poetry 2014, ed. Daniel Lawless (Asheville: MadHat, Inc., 2014).
• “Vesalius at the Gibbet of Montfaucon.” 25th Anniversary Poetry Retrospective, Green Mountains Review XXV, no. 1 (Summer 2012).
• “The Nitro.” The Paris Review (Spring 2011).
• “The Nitro.” Poetry Daily (Charlottesville: The Poetry Daily Foundation, 2011).  Web. 2 April 2011.
• “The Diagrammer of Sentences.” New Hungers from the Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry (Scottsdale, AZ: Star Cloud Press, 2011).

• Connecticut State Artist Fellowship, 2007.
• Maxwell Shepherd Foundation grant, 2006.
• Connecticut Circuit Poet award, 2004.
• Outstanding Teacher Award, Vermont College, 2004.
• Connecticut State Artist Fellowship, 2001.
• One of two finalists for Joyce Osterweil PEN Award, 1999.
• Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, 1998.
• Bush Foundation Fellowship, 1997.
• Akron Poetry Prize, 1996.
• Twelve Pushcart Prize nominations
• Fellowships to Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell Colony.