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Patrick Phillips

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Patrick Phillips
OccupationPoet, writer, professor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksBlood 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.[2] He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and previously taught writing and literature at Drew University.[3][4] He grew up in Georgia and now lives in San Francisco.

Works

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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,[4] The American Poetry Review,[5] Harvard Review,[6] DoubleTake, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review,[7] and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's show The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio.[8]

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.[2]

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

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Published works

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  • Chattahoochee. University of Arkansas Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-55728-775-5.
  • Boy. University of Georgia Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8203-3119-5.
  • Elegy for a Broken Machine. Alfred A. Knopf. 2015. ISBN 978-0385353755.
  • Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America. W. W. Norton & Company. 2016. ISBN 978-0-393-29301-2.

References

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  1. ^ "Patrick Phillips". Stanford University. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Writers at Drew". Drew University. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
  3. ^ "English Department - Drew University". depts.drew.edu.
  4. ^ a b "Read By Author - Ploughshares". www.pshares.org.
  5. ^ "Aprweb.org". Archived from the original on September 27, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
  6. ^ Phillips, Patrick (Spring 2008). "In the Beginning". Harvard Review. 34. Archived from the original on October 13, 2008.
  7. ^ "Patrick Phillips - VQR Online". www.vqronline.org.
  8. ^ Media, American Public. "The Writer's Almanac: Patrick Phillips". writersalmanac.publicradio.org.
  9. ^ "2015 Conference on Poetry Faculty" (PDF). Retrieved March 14, 2023.
  10. ^ "NEA: 2009 GRANT AWARDS: Literature Fellowships (Poetry)". Archived from the original on July 11, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2009.
  11. ^ a b "Past ASF Translation Prize Winners - ASF". October 23, 2015.
  12. ^ "Winners & Finalists - Tufts Poetry Awards". www.cgu.edu.
  13. ^ "The Nation".
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