Frost Place Poetry Seminar Director, poet and translator Patrick Donnelly will read from his poetry collections Little-Known Operas, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, and The Charge, as well as from newer work. From the sexual abandon of the 1980s gay demimonde, to a New England mill town whose mill has closed, to a mother’s decline into mental illness, Nocturnes of the Brothel of ...