Patrick Phillips
Patrick Phillips is an American poet, writer, and professor. He teaches writing and literature at Stanford University, and is a Carnegie Foundation Fellow and a fellow of the Cullman Center for Writers at the New York Public Library. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and previously taught writing and literature at Drew University.
Patrick Phillips
- Name
- Patrick Phillips
- Occupation
- Poet, writer, professor
- Born
- 1970 · United States.
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- English-language literature · creative writing
- Education
- University of Copenhagen · Lakeview Academy
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship · Fulbright Scholarship · The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards · Lyric Poetry Award · Carnegie Fellow
- Languages
- English
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Patrick Phillips naquit en 1970.
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He grew up in Georgia and now lives in San Francisco.
Patrick Phillips studied at University of Copenhagen and Lakeview Academy. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is English-language literature and creative writing. Places of work recorded in the authority are Brooklyn and Stanford. Employment is recorded with Drew University and Stanford University. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship and The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards.
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• Name — Patrick Phillips • Occupation — Poet, writer, professor • Language — English • Notable Works — Blood at the Root
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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, The American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, DoubleTake, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's show The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio. 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. Phillips has also served as a faculty member for the annual Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place in New Hampshire.
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Honors and awards
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship • 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry • 2008 Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation • 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Chattahoochee • 2004 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship • 2003 "Discovery" / The Nation Award, Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y • 2001 Sjoberg Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, for translations of the Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt • 2000 Fulbright Fellowship in Literary Translation, University of Copenhagen
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- 1.Patrick Phillips. Stanford University.
- 2.English Department - Drew University. depts.drew.edu.
- 3.Read By Author - Ploughshares. www.pshares.org.
- 4.Aprweb.org.
- 5.Phillips, Patrick. In the Beginning. Harvard Review. 34. Spring 2008.
- 6.Patrick Phillips - VQR Online. www.vqronline.org.
- 7.Media, American Public. The Writer's Almanac: Patrick Phillips. writersalmanac.publicradio.org.
- 8.Writers at Drew. Drew University.
- 9.2015 Conference on Poetry Faculty.
- 10.NEA: 2009 GRANT AWARDS: Literature Fellowships (Poetry).
- 11.Past ASF Translation Prize Winners - ASF. October 23, 2015.
- 12.Winners & Finalists - Tufts Poetry Awards. www.cgu.edu.
- 13.The Nation.
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