Patrick Phillips

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.

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

2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
2009 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry^[10]
2008 Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation^[11]
2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Chattahoochee^[12]
2004 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
2003 "Discovery" / The Nation Award, Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y^[13]
2001 Sjoberg Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, for translations of the Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt^[11]
2000 Fulbright Fellowship in Literary Translation, University of Copenhagen

Chattahoochee. University of Arkansas Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-55728-775-5.
Boy. University of Georgia Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8203-3119-5.
Elegy for a Broken Machine. Alfred A. Knopf. 2015. ISBN 978-0385353755.
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America. W. W. Norton & Company. 2016. ISBN 978-0-393-29301-2.

^ "Patrick Phillips". Stanford University. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Writers at Drew". Drew University. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
^ "English Department - Drew University". depts.drew.edu.
^ ^a ^b "Read By Author - Ploughshares". www.pshares.org.
^ "Aprweb.org". Archived from the original on September 27, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
^ Phillips, Patrick (Spring 2008). "In the Beginning". Harvard Review. 34. Archived from the original on October 13, 2008.
^ "Patrick Phillips - VQR Online". www.vqronline.org.
^ Media, American Public. "The Writer's Almanac: Patrick Phillips". writersalmanac.publicradio.org.
^ "2015 Conference on Poetry Faculty" (PDF). Retrieved March 14, 2023.
^ "NEA: 2009 GRANT AWARDS: Literature Fellowships (Poetry)". Archived from the original on July 11, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Past ASF Translation Prize Winners - ASF". October 23, 2015.
^ "Winners & Finalists - Tufts Poetry Awards". www.cgu.edu.
^ "The Nation".