The Art of Compost

Welcome to
Christopher Patton’s
website & blog

I’m a poet, translator, teacher, & literary curator. I started this blog a decade ago as friend to a course I was teaching on found poetry, recycled writing, & creative appropriation. As the course came & went the blog remained – becoming a grab bag for writing prompts, experiments in visual poetry, & diverse musings on art & culture.

Today, on its tenth birthday, it changes before your eyes, into a website! – my various professional activities (the blog among them) gathered into four virtual garden plots:

The metamorphosis is still (when is it not?) underway. Spots marked [TK] truly are to come. Redundancies will be undone unless they are too charming to say no to. Some about pages if you’re into that: