When
noon to 1 p.m., Nov. 1, 2012
Where
The University of Arizona Poetry Center
1508 E Helen St
Tucson AZ 85721
Carl Phillips is the author of twelve books of poems, most recently Double Shadow, winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Silverchest, forthcoming in 2013. He has also written a book of prose, Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Prize, and awards and fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was named a Chancellor in 2007. Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
Read an exerpt by Carl Phillips here.