ESSAYS
2020
“Mutual Regard: A Love Letter for the Origins of Black-Filipino Resistance”
Hyphen Magazine, July 4, 2020
2017
“To the Lady Who Mistook Me for the Help at the National Book Awards”
Lit Hub, November 1, 2017
2016
"Where Was I | Adventures in Reading: Patrick Rosal"
The University of Arizona Poetry Center, July 26, 2016
"Patrick Rosal on 'Ars Poetica: After a Dog'"
Poetry Society of America, "In Their Own Words," March 3, 2016
2014
"A Brute in America: Poetry and an Interrogation of Violence"
ARTSblog, Americans for the Arts, November 19, 2014
"Bitter Fruits: On Ferguson and the Ghosts of the Philippine-American War"
Hyphen, August 19, 2014
"Poetry Is Hospitable to Strangeness and Surprise"
The New York Times, "Room for Debate", July 18, 2014
"Pacquiao vs. Rios: Contemplating the Filipino in Macau"
Some Call It Ballin', Issue 1, Winter 2014
2012
"Boxing's Return to Brooklyn and Brownsville's Thirst for Boxing"
Grantland, October 22, 2012
"Barriga's Olympic Debut" and "Keats and Barriga: Filipino Capability"
The Best American Poetry, August 15, 2012
From "Epilogues"
"We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 7)", Los Angeles Review of Books, August 13, 2012"
"Body Limits: Weightlifting and Depression"
"We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 5)", Los Angeles Review of Books, August 10, 2012
"Hagler-Leonard and the Limits of Speech"
with Ross Gay
"We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the Olympics (Part 2)", Los Angeles Review of Books, August 3, 2012
"Hair Like Sadness"
Brevity, Issue 39, Spring 2012
"A Tribute to Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)"
National Book Foundation blog, April 27, 2012
"Basketball and the Immigrant Faith"
Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball, Michigan State University Press, February 2012
"Patrick Rosal on Thomas Lux"
"Short Takes on Long Poems, Volume 4", At Length, 2012
2011
"Works in Progress: Patrick Rosal - The Boneshepherd's Lament"
Union Station, May 2011
2010
"Despedida: In Praise of the Local and the Mundane"
The Electronic Monsoon Magazine, No. 35
"Improvisations: Everything I Know About Pianos"
Drunken Boat, Issue #13, Winter 2010-2011
2008
"Patrick Rosal Reads Robert Hayden"
Lemon Hound, October 28, 2008
2006
"An Essay on Tango Composed While Listening to Adriana Varela"
Brevity, Issue 22, Summer 2006