Patrick Phillips
Patrick Phillips | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Poet, writer, professor |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| 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.[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
[edit]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
[edit]- 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry[10]
- 2008 Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation[11]
- 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Chattahoochee[12]
- 2004 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
- 2003 "Discovery" / The Nation Award, Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y[13]
- 2001 Sjoberg Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, for translations of the Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt[11]
- 2000 Fulbright Fellowship in Literary Translation, University of Copenhagen
Published works
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Patrick Phillips". Stanford University. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
- ^ a b "Writers at Drew". Drew University. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
- ^ "English Department - Drew University". depts.drew.edu.
- ^ a b "Read By Author - Ploughshares". www.pshares.org.
- ^ "Aprweb.org". Archived from the original on September 27, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ Phillips, Patrick (Spring 2008). "In the Beginning". Harvard Review. 34. Archived from the original on October 13, 2008.
- ^ "Patrick Phillips - VQR Online". www.vqronline.org.
- ^ Media, American Public. "The Writer's Almanac: Patrick Phillips". writersalmanac.publicradio.org.
- ^ "2015 Conference on Poetry Faculty" (PDF). Retrieved March 14, 2023.
- ^ "NEA: 2009 GRANT AWARDS: Literature Fellowships (Poetry)". Archived from the original on July 11, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2009.
- ^ a b "Past ASF Translation Prize Winners - ASF". October 23, 2015.
- ^ "Winners & Finalists - Tufts Poetry Awards". www.cgu.edu.
- ^ "The Nation".
External links
[edit]- 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
