Award-Winning Poet, CARL PHILLIPS

The Brandeis department of English is pleased to welcome CARL PHILLIPS, author of several books of poetry including Reconnaissance, winner of the 2016 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry. PHILLIPS has also published The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination (Graywolf, 2015), and Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004); and has translated Sophocles’s Philoctetes (Oxford, 2004).  A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, his honors include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Award, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, for which he served as a Chancellor (2006-2012).  Currently the judge for the Yale Younger Poets Series, Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

This free, public event is co-sponsored by the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life.