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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.


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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