Carl Phillips is the author of 15 previous books of poetry, most recently Pale Colors in a Tall Field (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) and Wild Is the Wind (FSG, 2018), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Other honors include the 2021 Jackson Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets. Phillips has also written two prose books: The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination (Graywolf, 2014) and Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004); and he has translated the Philoctetes of Sophocles (Oxford University Press, 2004). He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Other poems by Carl Phillips in Verse Daily:
October 23, 2021:   "Is It True All Legends Once Were Rumors" "And it was as we'd been told it would be..."
November 6, 2020:   "While Night Still Keeps Us" "Finally, if we're very lucky, we get to see affectionFinally, if we're very lucky, we get to see affection..."
August 11, 2020:   "In a Low Voice, Slowly" "So stubborn, and as if almost necessary, this..."
September 9, 2016:   "Darkening, Brightening" "Listening's not enough, you've gotta watch them, that way they feel..."
April 22, 2016:   "His Grace Asleep and Waking" "- Despite having been raised mostly to cause..."
November 1 2015:   "Meditation: On Being a Mystery to Oneself" "The oars of the ship called Late Forgiveness lift..."
June 9, 2014:   "Pulling the Arrow Out" "Mumbling something about how..."
August 30, 2007:   "Reciprocity" " Rest, now. All that ruggedness, blood-pain, and blindness-to-its..."
July 18, 2002:  "Minotaur" "What stalked the room was never envy...."

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Other poems on the web by Carl Phillips:
"Pale Colors in a Tall Field"
"Searchlights"
"Blue-winged Warbler"
Twenty-nine poems
Two poems
"Crossing"
"Wake Up"
Two poems
Ten poems
Three poems
Nine poems

Carl Phillips on Twitter.