Patrick Phillips Explained
Patrick Phillips |
Nationality: | American |
Occupation: | Poet, writer, professor |
Language: | English |
Notable Works: | Blood at the Root |
Patrick Phillips is an American poet, writer, and professor. He teaches writing and literature at Stanford University,[1] and is a Carnegie Foundation Fellow and a fellow of the Cullman Center for Writers at the New York Public Library. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and previously taught writing and literature at Drew University.[2] He grew up in Georgia and now lives in San Francisco.
Works
Phillips' 2015 poetry collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares,[3] The American Poetry Review,[4] Harvard Review,[5] DoubleTake, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review,[6] and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's show The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio.[7]
Phillips' 2016 non-fiction book Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America was named a best book of the year by The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and Smithsonian magazine.[8]
Phillips has also served as a faculty member for the annual Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place in New Hampshire.[9]
Honors and awards
Published works
- Book: Chattahoochee. University of Arkansas Press. 2004. 978-1-55728-775-5 .
- Book: Boy. University of Georgia Press . 2008. 978-0-8203-3119-5 .
- Book: Elegy for a Broken Machine. Alfred A. Knopf . 2015. 978-0385353755.
- Book: Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America. W. W. Norton & Company . 2016. 978-0-393-29301-2.
External links
- Official Website - PatrickPhillipsBooks.com
- "Stray Questions for: Patrick Phillips", Gregory Cowles, The New York Times, October 24, 2008
- "Watching the Surface for a Sign", video of readings and an interview with Natasha Trethewey, Southern Spaces: An Interndisciplinary Journal about the regions, places, and cultures of the American South, Emory University, April 14, 2009
- From the Fishouse: An Audio Archive of Emerging Poets: Patrick Phillips
- American Life in Poetry, Selected and Introduced by Ted Kooser: "Matinee" by Patrick Phillips
Notes and References
- Web site: Patrick Phillips . . March 14, 2023.
- Web site: English Department - Drew University. depts.drew.edu.
- Web site: Read By Author - Ploughshares. www.pshares.org.
- Web site: Aprweb.org. January 26, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20140927001617/http://www.aprweb.org/poem/revelation. September 27, 2014. dead.
- Phillips . Patrick . Spring 2008 . In the Beginning . dead . . 34 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081013222825/http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview/issues/34/phillips.html . October 13, 2008.
- Web site: Patrick Phillips - VQR Online. www.vqronline.org.
- Web site: The Writer's Almanac: Patrick Phillips. American Public. Media. writersalmanac.publicradio.org.
- Web site: Writers at Drew. . . March 14, 2023.
- Web site: 2015 Conference on Poetry Faculty . March 14, 2023.
- Web site: NEA: 2009 GRANT AWARDS: Literature Fellowships (Poetry) . July 17, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090711092401/http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/09grants/litFellows.html . July 11, 2009 .
- Web site: Past ASF Translation Prize Winners - ASF. October 23, 2015 .
- Web site: Winners & Finalists - Tufts Poetry Awards. www.cgu.edu.
- Web site: The Nation.