Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is the author of sixteen books of poetry, including Scattered Snows, to the North (FSG, 2024) and Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (FSG, 2022), which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Phillips has also received the Academy of American Poets Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. His other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

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POETRY / Fall 2018

Star Map With Action Figures

By Carl Phillips

More dark than gray, but not yet quite dark
entirely, the stories keep ending as if there were
a limit to what any story could hold onto, and this
the limit, the latest version of it, looking a lot like the sea
meeting shore.

POETRY / Fall 2018

My Monster

By Carl Phillips

This hill, even if a small one, this hill with us and the dog the same dog
forever moving shadow-like down it, to where the hill disappears…For

POETRY / Fall 2018

Dangerous Only When Disturbed

By Carl Phillips

Of birdsongs, I know only three
for certain: cardinal, blue jay, raven,
though perhaps the last two
don’t count—not as song. More call
than song. More cry, by which I mean

POETRY / Fall 2018

And If I Fall

By Carl Phillips

There’s this cathedral in my head I keep
making from cricket song and
dying but rogue-in-spirit, still,
bamboo. Not making. I keep
imagining it, as if that were the same

Summer 2009

Carl Phillips

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Star Map With Action Figures

My Monster

Dangerous Only When Disturbed

And If I Fall

Of the Rippling Surface

Master and Slave

My Bluest Shirt

The Damned

Late Empire

Carl Phillips

Biography

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