Carl Phillips

After winning the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and retiring after three decades teaching at Washington University, Carl Phillips has published a new collection of poems. Like much of his work, they linger on themes like the unreliability of memory and the ever-present specter of loss.

Carl Phillips read the title poem of his award-winning collection, “Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020,” during a March 2022 appearance on St. Louis on the Air.

Carl Phillips’ new book includes both new material and selected poems from 2007 to 2020.

Carl Phillips was teaching Latin to high school students when a poet changed his life. Phillips had long been an avid reader and wrote poems casually, but…

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