Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is the author of Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and the prose book My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing, among many other books.
Essays

Community

Finding company on and off the page
Carl Phillips
October 10, 2022
Conversations

Three Queer Writers on Craft and Cruising

Garth Greenwell,
Richie Hofmann,
and
Carl Phillips
February 28, 2022
Corner of a windowed room with walls lit up red at night. Thomas Hawk / Creative Commons
Poetry

As the Rain Comes Down Harder

Carl Phillips
September 1, 2020
Abstract decay on a concrete wall. Tanakawho / Creative Commons
Poetry

Only Portions of the Map Still Legibly Survive

Carl Phillips
September 1, 2020
Poetry

For Long to Hold

Carl Phillips
April 1, 2014