Dennis Phillips
Dennis Phillips (born 1951) is a U.S. poet & novelist. He is the author of A World (1989), Arena (1991), Book of Hours (1996), Credence (1996), and Sand (2002), among other works of poetry, as well as the novel Hope (2007). He co-edited the poetry-section of the New Review of Literature, was a founding editor of Littoral Books, the first Book Review Editor of the magazine Sulfur and the L.A. Weekly's first poetry-editor, as well as a director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.
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Dennis Phillips (born 1951) is a U.S. poet & novelist. He is the author of A World (1989), Arena (1991), Book of Hours (1996), Credence (1996), and Sand (2002), among other works of poetry, as well as the novel Hope (2007). He co-edited the poetry-section of the New Review of Literature, was a founding editor of Littoral Books, the first Book Review Editor of the magazine Sulfur and the L.A. Weekly's first poetry-editor, as well as a director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.
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Phillips attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Clayton Eshleman. He then attended graduate school at New York University. He is a professor in the Humanities and Science Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, the city where he lives with his wife, artist Courtney Gregg, and their daughter.
• The Hero Is Nothing, Kajun Press, San Francisco (1985) • A World, Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles (1989) • Arena, Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles (1991) • Means, Parenthesis Writing Series, San Diego (1991) • 20 Questions, Jahbone Press, Los Angeles (1991) • Book of Hours, ML NLF, Piacenza, Italy (1996) • Credence, Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles (1996) • Study for the Ideal City, Seeing Eye Books. Los Angeles (1999) • Sand, Green Integer, Los Angeles (2002) • Hope, (A Novel) Green Integer, Los Angeles (2007) • "Preface" (by Dennis Phillips), Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman, edited by Stephen Motika (Afterword by Bill Mohr), Nightboat Books, 2009. • "Study for the Possibilities of Hope," Pie in the Sky Press, Los Angeles (2010) • "Navigation: Selected poems 1985 - 2010," Seismicity Editions. (Afterword by George Albon.) Los Angeles (2011) • "Sophia's Lament," Ninja Press, Los Angeles (2012) • "Measures," Talisman House Publishers, Greenfield, MA (2013) • "Mappa Mundi," Talisman House Publishers, Greenfield, MA (2019)
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