Patricia Frech

We introduce you to Patricia (Trish) Frech, who has published a collection of poetry that transforms moments of nature or events into philosophic or iconic scenes taking the reader on musical or natural journeys. Patricia recently retired from teaching to complete this work; her role as a teacher, professor and lover of nature is the backdrop of her prosaic, musical, and philosophic eye as seen through various genres such as odes, riddles, songs, sonnets and iconic lyrical poetry. Trish transforms silence into revelations of human nature. Her backdrop is one of literary and personal journeys: a teacher in secondary and college classrooms; a traveler from her home town in Virginia, to a cultural education in Hawaii; teaching in private and public schools in Maine, Hawaii, and Virginia, and an immersion of British schools on a sabbatical in England. You will want to travel with her as her book covers three arenas and ends with an appendix that is both instructional and personal as she lays out some protocols for students or teachers to use in the classroom. Writers, Like Hats opens with an ode and ends with students' profound view for the future.