Event Host: Department of English MFA Program in Creative Writing
Short Description: Carl Phillips is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Reconnaisance, Silverchest, Double Shadow, Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006, and Riding Westward.
Carl Phillips is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Reconnaisance, Silverchest, Double Shadow, Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006, and Riding Westward. His honors include the 2006 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress. Phillips served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2006 to 2012. He is Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also teaches in the Creative Writing Program.
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