Patrick Phillips

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Patrick Phillips
OccupationPoet, writer, professor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Notable works Blood at the Root

Patrick Phillips is an American poet, writer, and professor. He teaches writing and literature at Stanford University, [1] and is a Carnegie Foundation Fellow and a fellow of the Cullman Center for Writers at the New York Public Library. [2] He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and previously taught writing and literature at Drew University. [3] [4] He grew up in Georgia and now lives in San Francisco.

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Works

Phillips' 2015 poetry collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares , [4] The American Poetry Review , [5] Harvard Review , [6] DoubleTake , New England Review , and Virginia Quarterly Review , [7] and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's show The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio. [8]

Phillips' 2016 non-fiction book Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America was named a best book of the year by The Boston Globe , The New York Times , and Smithsonian magazine. [2]

Phillips has also served as a faculty member for the annual Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place in New Hampshire. [9]

Honors and awards

Published works

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