then the war and selected poems 2007 2020

Other honors include the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets. His next book, Then the War, and Selected Poems 2007-2020, is forthcoming from FSG in 2022. ABOUT CARL PHILLIPSĬarl Phillips is the author of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Pale Colors in a Tall Field (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) and Wild Is the Wind (FSG, 2018), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Poets & Writers will host a virtual celebration in honor of Carl Phillips in June. And that makes all the difference when it comes to setting off all over again in search of the next poem.” Upon learning that he is this year’s Jackson Poetry Prize winner, he said: “I'm immensely grateful to the judges for their belief in my work-encouragement and confirmation are always wonderful, of course, at any time, but there’s something especially meaningful when those come at the later end of a writing life: it means what I do has not only mattered to others, but still matters. Phillips is the author of fifteen books of poetry and teaches at Washington University in St. In their citation the judges noted: “Phillips is a love poet he wants to know what one human has to do with another, what one owes another, and how all of this translates into desire and the capacity to inspire moral or immoral reactions.” The judges praised Phillips for producing “poems that sustain our contemplation, disrupt our complacencies, and leave us changed.” The reader, they assert, “has no choice but to see affirmed the chronicle of a life deeply lived.” Read the full citation. Three judges-acclaimed poets Jericho Brown, Carolyn Forché, and Juan Felipe Herrera-selected Phillips from a group of nineteen nominees who, in turn, were nominated by nineteen poets. Endowed by John and Susan Jackson, the prize carries a monetary award, increased this year to $75,000, and aims to provide what poets need: time and encouragement to write. The prize is awarded annually by Poets & Writers to an American poet of exceptional talent. New York, NY – – Poets & Writers announced today that Carl Phillips is the recipient of the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize.

Then the war and selected poems 2007 2020