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Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020. His new prose book is My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing. He lives in St. Louis, where he teaches at Washington University.


“Scattered Snows, to the North,” a Poem by Carl Phillips

From the Collection “Scattered Snows, to the North”
August 8, 2024  By Carl Phillips
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Carl Phillips on the Value of Silence for Writers

“Sometimes the problem is that we’re trying too hard.”
October 28, 2022  By Carl Phillips
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“Little Shields, in Starlight”

A Poem by Carl Phillips
February 8, 2022  By Carl Phillips
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The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

Carl Phillips on Who's Winning the Oldest Annual Literary Award in America
October 23, 2019  By Carl Phillips
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‘Crossing,’ A Poem by Carl Phillips

From His Collection Wild Is the Wind
May 13, 2019  By Carl Phillips
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