Carl Phillips

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Carl Phillips
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Born (1959-07-23) 23 July 1959 (age 64)
Education Harvard University (BA)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA)
Boston University (MA)
Employer Washington University in St. Louis
Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards
Jackson Poetry Prize
Lambda Literary Award
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
PartnerDoug Macomber (1992–2007)
Reston Allen (2013–present)

Carl Phillips (born 23 July 1959) [1] is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. [2] In 2023, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020. [3] [4] [5]

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Early life

Phillips was born in Everett, Washington. He was born a child of a military family, moving year-by-year until finally settling in his high-school years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A graduate of Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Boston University, Phillips taught high-school Latin for eight years.

Works

His first collection of poems, In the Blood, won the 1992 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, and his second book, Cortège, was nominated for a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. His Pastoral won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Best Poetry. [6] Phillips' work has been published in the Yale Review , Atlantic Monthly , The New Yorker and the Paris Review . He was named a Witter Bynner Fellowship in 1998 and in 2006, he was named the recipient of the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, given in memory of James Merrill.

In 2002, Phillips received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for The Tether. [7] In 2004, he published All It Takes. He won the Thom Gunn Award in 2005 for The Rest of Love.

His poems, which include themes of spirituality, sexuality, mortality, and faith, [2] are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.

In 2015, Phillips released his 13th collection of poems, Reconnaissance, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Poetry and appeared on the Top Books list from Canada's The Globe and Mail . Phillips was also a featured poet in the "Picture and a Poem" series for T: The New York Times Style Magazine in December 2015. Reconnaissance won the Lambda Literary Award [8] and the PEN Center USA Award. [9]

Philips latest book to be published, Then the War: And Selected Poems (2022), won the Pulitzer Prize in 2023. [10] Then the War is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry. [11]

Recognition

Phillips is a four-time finalist for the National Book Award. [12] He received the 2002 Kingsley Tufts Award [13] and the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize. [14] He was also the named a winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. [15]

Phillips was a judge for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize. In April 2010, he was named as the new judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, replacing Louise Glück. In 2011, he was appointed to the judging panel for The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. [16] His collection of poetry, Double Shadow, was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for poetry. [17] Double Shadow won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Poetry category).

Phillips was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2008 to 2012. [18] and he was nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize for Silverchest.

The Board of Trustees of The Kenyon Review honored Carl Phillips as the 2013 recipient of the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. [19] Philips has also held fellowships from the Gtuggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, for which he served as chancellor from 2006-2012. [20]

Selected bibliography

Critical studies, reviews and biography

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References

  1. ↑ Poets, Academy of American. "Carl Phillips". Poets.org. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Faculty Experts at Washington University in St. Louis: Carl Phillips". Washington University in St. Louis. Archived from the original on May 3, 2009. Retrieved August 26, 2007.
  3. ↑ "Washington University professor wins Pulitzer Prize in poetry". ksdk.com. May 9, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  4. ↑ Henderson, Jane (May 8, 2023). "Carl Phillips of Washington University wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry". STLtoday.com. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Wash U professor Carl Phillips wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Hear him read 'Then the War'". STLPR. May 8, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Selected Awards and Honors". Graywolf Press. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
  7. ↑ "Previous Winners & Finalists" Archived July 8, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , Tufts Poetry Awards, Claremont Graduate School.
  8. ↑ "28th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners" Archived November 24, 2018, at the Wayback Machine , LAMBDA Literary.
  9. ↑ "Announcing the Winners of PEN Center USA' 2016 Literary Awards" Archived August 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , Literary Hub, August 25, 2016.
  10. ↑ Foundation, Poetry (December 19, 2023). "Carl Phillips". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Then the War". Carl Phillips. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  12. ↑ "National Book Foundation - Browse Awards by Year". National Book Award. Archived from the original on February 27, 2023. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  13. ↑ "Previous Winners & Finalists". Kingsley Tufts Award. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  14. ↑ "Carl Phillips Wins Jackson Poetry Prize $75,000 Award". Poets & Writers. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  15. ↑ English, Department of. "Faculty". Department of English. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  16. ↑ "Judges" Archived January 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , Tufts Poetry Awards, Claremont Graduate School.
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