The Poet and the Poem
2022-23 Series

Featured Patti (Spady) Ross

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Patti (Spady) Ross graduated from Washington, DC's Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts. As a lifetime learner her most recent certificate is in Writing for Social Justice from the University of California, Berkeley. After high-school, she performed with several local theater companies in the Washington region. In addition to her performance career, she used her college degree in print media to freelance several of her journalist pieces gaining publication in the Washington Times and the Rural America newspapers. A few years ago, Patti rediscovered her love of writing and is sharing her voice as the spoken word artist "little pi." Her debut chapbook, St. Paul Street Provocations, was released in 2021 by Yellow Arrow Publishing; she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Indemnity". She is a former board member for the Maryland Writers Association. Patti is the first Poet in Residence for the AA Food Bank in partnership with PoetryXHunger. Her most recent publication is in the anthology: Writing the Land: Foodways and Social Justice, Release October 2022
Follow her blog at: https://littlepisuniverse.com
Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/pattirossakalittlepi

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