writing and poetry.
In addition to his four books, the top selling Writing Better Lyrics, 2nd Edition
(Penguin/Random House), Songwriting Without Boundaries (Penguin/Random
House), The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure (Hal Leonard)
and The Essential Guide to Rhyming, 2nd Edition (Hal Leonard), Pat has
developed seven online courses for Berklee Online: five on lyric writing
(including two Master’s level courses), one on poetry, and one on creative
writing, all available here. In addition, more than 3,500,000 students have
enrolled in his Coursera MOOC “Songwriting: Writing the Lyric” since its first
run in 2013. He has written over seventy-five articles for various blogs and
magazines, including American Songwriter, and has chapters in both The
Poetics of American Song Lyrics (University Press of Mississippi) and the
Handbook on Creative Writing (Edinburgh University Press).
Pat continues to present songwriting clinics across the US, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, and Europe. Pat’s students include Grammy-winners,
professional songwriters, and major recording artists, including Gillian Welch,
John Mayer, Tom Hambridge, Joelle James, Amy Allen, Justin Tranter,
Karmin, American Authors, Betty Who, Liz Longley, Charlie Worsham, Molly
Tuttle, Greg Becker and many more.
