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| Born | (1959-07-23)July 23, 1959 (age 65) |
| 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 |
| Partner | Doug 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 atWashington University in St. Louis.[2] In 2023, he was awarded aPulitzer Prize for Poetry for hisThen the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020.[3][4][5]
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 onCape Cod,Massachusetts. A graduate ofHarvard University, theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, andBoston University, Phillips taught high-school Latin for eight years.
His first collection of poems,In the Blood, won the 1992Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, and his second book,Cortège, was nominated for a 1995National Book Critics Circle Award. HisPastoral won the 2001Lambda Literary Award for Poetry.[6] Phillips' work has been published inThe Yale Review,The Atlantic Monthly,The New Yorker andThe Paris Review. He was named aWitter Bynner Fellowship in 1998 and in 2006, he was named the recipient of the Fellowship of theAcademy of American Poets, given in memory ofJames Merrill.
In 2002, Phillips received theKingsley Tufts Poetry Award, forThe Tether.[7] In 2004, he publishedAll It Takes. He won theThom Gunn Award in 2005 forThe Rest of Love.
His poems, which include themes of spirituality, sexuality, mortality, and faith,[2] are featured inAmerican Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.
In 2015, Phillips released his 13th collection of poems,Reconnaissance, which was nominated for anNAACP Image Award for Best Poetry and appeared on the Top Books list from Canada'sThe Globe and Mail. Phillips was also a featured poet in the "Picture and a Poem" series forT: The New York Times Style Magazine in December 2015.Reconnaissance won theLambda Literary Award[8] and thePEN 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 described by his publisher as "luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry".[11]
Phillips is a four-time finalist for theNational 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 2010Griffin Poetry Prize. In April 2010, he was named as the new judge of theYale Series of Younger Poets, replacingLouise Glück. In 2011, he was appointed to the judging panel forThe Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards.[16] His collection of poetry,Double Shadow, was a finalist for the 2011National Book Award for poetry.[17]Double Shadow won the 2011Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Poetry category).
Phillips was a Chancellor of theAcademy of American Poets from 2008 to 2012.[18] and he was nominated for the 2014Griffin Poetry Prize forSilverchest.
The Board of Trustees ofThe 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 Guggenheim Foundation, theLibrary of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, for which he served as chancellor from 2006 to 2012.[15]
Phillips was shortlisted for the 2024T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, alongsideKaren McCarthy Woolf,Raymond Antrobus,Gboyega Odubanjo,Rachel Mann and others.[20]
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