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Patrick Sylvain | |
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Occupation | Poet, educator |
Alma mater |
University of Massachusetts, Boston (BA)
Harvard University (EdM) Boston University (MFA) Brandeis University (PhD) |
Notable works | Education Across Borders: Immigration, Race, and Identity in the Classroom |
Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American poet and professor. He earned his B.A. in Political Science and Social Psychology at University of Massachusetts, Boston. In 1988, he graduated from Harvard University with his Ed.M. in Political Science and Sociology where he was the James Bryant Conant Fellow. While at Harvard, he joined the Dark Room Collective. [1] He received his M.F.A in Poetry at Boston University. [2] He was the 2019-20 Evan Frankel Fellow at Brandeis University where he earned his Ph.D. in English in 2022. [3] [4] He has held faculty appointments at Harvard College and Brown University. He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Literature and Writing Department at Simmons University.
His work has been published in African American Review, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner and Massachusetts Review. [5] He has cited writers Amitav Ghosh, Edwidge Danticat, and Zadie Smith, as authors whose work he is interested in. [6]
He is currently working on the projects Haiti and Being: Vodoun, Zombies and the Plantation Continuum and Haiti: Scorched Pearl of the Antilles. [2] His poetry collections, Butterfly wings: Zel papiyon, Love, Lust, & Loss: Lanmou, anvi, pédans, and Unfinished Dreams / Rèv San Bout are all bilingual and were written in both Haitian Creole and English.
In Carl E. James' review of Sylvain's book, Education Across Borders, co-authored with Jalene Tamerat and Marie Lily Cerat, James writes, "Education Across Borders is an invaluable resource not only for use in high school, college, and university classrooms by students and teachers, but for everyone. It provides essential and relevant insights into how colonialism, racism, and xenophobia has shaped the lives of Black youth in the United States and Canada." [7]