Xandria Phillips

Biography

Xandria Phillips is the poetry editor at Honeysuckle Press and the author of the Reasons for Smoking (Seattle Review, 2017) and Hull (Nightboat, 2019). Their writing has been featured in Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere.

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POETRY / Summer 2019

Opulence

By Xandria Phillips


          my heaven innard
turned to land

        apostled lips

POETRY / Summer 2019

Nativity

By Xandria Phillips


in the dream where I run without breasts I am motivated by flight, I haven’t yet begun to unweld the framework, invent new trauma, whip the stitch arching each bosom as victuals dangled, withheld. when I hemorrhage against design it ain’t...

POETRY / Summer 2019

Sometimes Boyhood

By Xandria Phillips


hovering their mouths 

like two men 

moments before 

they turn on each other


that is how the grass smells 

POETRY / Summer 2019

Nature Poem with a Compulsive Attraction to the Shark

By Xandria Phillips

the hive swells outside
as its residents itch to lick our inner walls 

for moisture and respite 

POETRY / Summer 2019

Dad Jacket

By Xandria Phillips


if this city is still breaking me  
in with its weather and tethered eye

you be the arch in my neck 
the mane growing from it