<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Friends,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Although we will be meeting next Friday for our continued discussion of Dan Beachy-Quick’s <i class="">gentlessness</i> (this time with the author himself) I did want to remind everyone that we will also meet on 10/30. That discussion will focus on Carl Phillip’s <em class="">Reconnaissance</em>, which was just published last month. Then. the poet will join us for a discussion of that book and his work in general on 11/6.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">15 copies of <em class="">Reconnaissance </em>are now available in room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center. As ever, these copies are free for members, though since they go so quickly we just ask that you only take a copy if you will be able to make at least one of the sessions devoted to the book.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A useful interview with Phillips can be found here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.npr.org_2015_08_29_435492413_for-2Dcarl-2Dphillips-2Dpoetry-2Dis-2Dexperience-2Dtransformed-2Dnot-2Dtranscribed&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=tWuvQfXE-oSMhHYoZBKZTjhEAYQAFttBCoUnKpyemsQ&e=" class="">http://www.npr.org/2015/08/29/435492413/for-carl-phillips-poetry-is-experience-transformed-not-transcribed</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ll paste at the bottom his official bio:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, our very own Liz Gray will be reading this Thursday, October 15th at 7 PM at <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thepoetryinstitute.com&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=zmQ4_pSnoabW0LXa_dZY7r0cD-ejmU1htERK6HB-XaA&e=" class="">The Poetry Institute</a>, The Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven. She’ll be reading from her new collection of poems, Series | India. <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.amazon.com_Series-2DIndia-2DStahlecker-2DSelections-2DElizabeth_dp_1935536559&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=Lx7rDYRUf6jj-ADtpnM5JvCbTx7V8Ny1pUzRBpkqVZU&e=" class="">http://www.amazon.com/Series-India-Stahlecker-Selections-Elizabeth/dp/1935536559</a></div> <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ever and Onward,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Richard Deming, Group Coordinator </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">+++</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="content clearfix with-image"><div class="node-content clearfix">
<div class="field-label-hidden field-name-body field field-type-text-with-summary"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="">Born on July 23, 1959 in Everett, Washington, <b class=""><u class="">Carl Phillips</u></b> is the author of numerous books of poetry, including <em class="">Reconnaisance</em> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), <i class="">Silverchest</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), <i class="">Double Shadow</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), <i class="">Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) and <i class="">Riding Westward</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). His collection <i class="">The Rest of Love</i>
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004) won the Theodore Roethke Memorial
Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, and
was a finalist for the National Book Award.</p><p class="">His other books include <i class="">Rock Harbor</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002); <i class="">The Tether</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; <i class="">Pastoral</i> (Graywolf Press, 2000), winner of the Lambda Literary Award; <i class="">From the Devotions</i> (Graywolf Press, 1998), finalist for the National Book Award; <i class="">Cortége</i> (Graywolf Press, 1995), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and <i class="">In the Blood</i> (Northeastern University Press, 1992), winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize.</p><p class="">His work has been anthologized in <i class="">The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry</i> (Vintage Books, 2003), edited by <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_poet_j-2Dd-2Dmcclatchy&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=PQ4F860voIuwNfYCezm5tT5Agpqeh87ohzCXpvT3yxc&e=" class="">J. D. McClatchy</a>; <i class="">Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology</i> (St. Martin’s Press, 2002), edited by Helen Vendler; <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_book_gay-2Dand-2Dlesbian-2Dpoetry-2Dour-2Dtime&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=CPpK3PfPnppkv6wL83YRuOSFktzce2l7ns0PoV80QuQ&e=" class=""><i class="">Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time</i></a> (St. Martin’s Press, 1988); <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_book_contemporary-2Damerican-2Dpoetry&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=E6eUxkxXcacsTZpirrANpqIgF1DekpMPbB0YfCC4CM8&e=" class=""><i class="">Contemporary American Poetry</i></a> (Houghton Mifflin, 2001); and <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_text_great-2Danthology-2Dvintage-2Dbook-2Dafrican-2Damerican-2Dpoetry&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=GvCEW1nJ9DxkD4W076a4sM84yWnXZdeS398quxAYZ-E&e=" class=""><i class="">The Vintage Book of African American Poetry</i></a> (Vintage Books, 2000). His poems have also been chosen eight times for the annual <i class="">Best American Poetry</i> series. Phillips is also the author of a book of prose, <i class="">Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry</i> (Graywolf Press, 2004), and the translator of Sophocles’s <i class="">Philoctetes</i> (Oxford University Press, 2003).</p><p class="">His honors include the 2006 <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_academy-2Damerican-2Dpoets_prizes_academy-2Damerican-2Dpoets-2Dfellowship&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=nGznIXtJmAvLdPvKG5DjQXzED9ahWqZh0AUkWNL5a5U&e=" class="">Academy of American Poets Fellowship</a>,
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.</p><p class="">Ancient Greek
and Roman writers, especially Thucydides, Cicero, and Tacitus, were an
early influence for Phillips. He studied their work extensively in
college, and through them learned “how forceful syntax can be in
conveying nuance” as well as the use of “compression when conveying
psychological and emotional crisis.” Later, while studying with <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_poet_sir-2Dgeoffrey-2Dhill&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=G_-rFePkcN7B6u86MEpy-xXQp6aN-Na5aHgu4cM2SR4&e=" class="">Geoffrey Hill</a>, he discovered English Metaphysical poets such as <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_poet_george-2Dherbert&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=Ms3vCuysPfXmne3NMOAEhmNNXHJzdcLyC0KQhVmgMIg&e=" class="">George Herbert</a> and <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_poet_john-2Ddonne&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=7uvtRpsLN54XKPI73jo_Moz-XQ1G5iR5nxraR6dNl58&e=" class="">John Donne</a>.</p><p class="">According
to the Judges’ Citation for the 1998 National Book Awards, “Carl
Phillips’s passionate and lyrical poems read like prayers, with a
prayer’s hesitations, its desire to be utterly accurate, its occasional
flowing outbursts.”</p><p class="">Phillips served as a <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_academy-2Damerican-2Dpoets_chancellors&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=ieEDtXs1hJHuhdapdjTpsOLjPEe4W-eoj5Ohj7_W1No&e=" class="">Chancellor</a>
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. </p><hr class=""><p class=""><strong class="">Selected Bibliography</strong></p><p class=""><em class="">Reconnaisance</em> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)<br class=""><i class="">Silverchest</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)<br class=""><i class="">Double Shadow</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)<br class=""><i class="">Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)<br class=""><i class="">Riding Westward</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)<br class=""><i class="">The Rest of Love</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)<br class=""><i class="">Rock Harbor</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)<br class=""><i class="">The Tether</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)<br class=""><i class="">Pastoral</i> (Graywolf Press, 2000)<br class=""><i class="">From the Devotions</i> (Graywolf Press, 1998)<br class=""><i class="">Cortége</i> (Graywolf Press, 1995)<br class=""><i class="">In the Blood</i> (Northeastern University Press, 1992)</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poets.org_poetsorg_poet_carl-2Dphillips&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=Wv-FChPIYozrmvMKRuHmxQEBEWCLmKc9M2L_LdpEOUI&m=8jOkQkoOpEtDYnMYWy2VGjQVKsJeWDw_roK2iEJAQEs&s=w5slbZzOJwYfvLjjdG7uslWhGCt74AViJV3MqMagA18&e=" class="">https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/carl-phillips</a></div></div></div></div> </div></div></div></body></html>